The document calls for the demolition of chambers around Muhammad’s grave and the removal of his remains to the nearby al-Baqi cemetery, where they would be anonymously interred without a headstone.

He carried a dozen roses into Cave Hill Cemetery and headed for a patch of grass in the back corner that seemed too ordinary for the man buried beneath it. Farzam Farrokhi had worried there would b… ...

Michael Rubin reviews Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society, by Leor Halevi. Columbia University Press, 2007 Western policymakers and academics often concern themselves ...

A proposal by a Saudi scholar to remove the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina and bury them in an unmarked grave have sparked controversy. The plans, according to the Independent newspaper ...

He carried a dozen roses into Cave Hill Cemetery and headed for a patch of grass in the back corner that seemed too ordinary for the man buried beneath it. Farzam Farrokhi had worried there would b… ...