Moderation & Tolerance
By Mustafa Akyol: In this age of anxiety, anger and contestations between the West and the Islamic world, many epoch-shaping stories of intellectual exchanges between our cultures are often forgotten. … Read More
By: Zahra Premji IslamNews – ‘We celebrate the exact same thing but in a total different way,’ says Aly Sunderji While eye-catching scenes of people jumping over fires during Navroz … Read More
IslamNews – The liberal international Order, established after the Second World War, faces potential challenges from its main driver US. The US hegemonic leadership is being challenged by the resurgent … Read More
IslamNews – The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), has … Read More
By Charlie Campbell | Photographs by Ruven Afanador for TIME | Morning has broken on the cedar-strewn foothills of the Himalayas. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama sits in meditation in his … Read More
The Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, His Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and other dignitaries attended the national day parade as Qatar celebrated the glorious occasion … Read More
By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem FOR AL-MONITOR — NAJAF, Iraq — The house of Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani lies a few hundred meters from the shrine of Imam Ali ibn … Read More
By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem* — The Shias of Lebanon gained global reputation in the early 1980s of the 20th century with the emergence of Hezbollah and its military operations against … Read More
BY Dr. Haytham Mouzahem — An-Najaf city is located southern of Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Including the shrine of Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib (599-661 CE), the … Read More
By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem* — Each year, as they commemorate Ashura, the Shiites debate whether certain rituals are permissible. Some of those rituals are violent, such as Tatbir and hitting … Read More
