Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad, a prominent Shia cleric, has condemned the government's Waqf bill, claiming it's designed to seize waqf properties unlawfully. He criticized the Joint Parliamentary Committee ...

A senior Syrian Shia cleric has been arrested and his son subjected to assault and battery in the Arab country’s southwest as ...

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accused Iran of backing the controversial sect, claiming its leaders were "exploiting young ...

Karbala’i, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Karbala, has commended efforts to compile the Quranic ...

Prominent Shia cleric and Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind general secretary Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad on Friday strongly opposed the Waqf bill introduced by the government in Parliament, calling it an attempt to ...

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The board said the government still has an opportunity to withdraw this Bill, which poses a threat to Waqf properties and ...

Foucault defended ayatollahs with bizarre arguments. For instance, he claimed that Shia clerics would not rule because of their faith. Khomeini explained precisely in his book, back in the 1960s ...

The meeting between Mr. Ruhullah, also a Shia cleric, and Mr. Farooq, also a patron of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), which is a conglomerate of 40-plus Muslim bodies in J&K, is a significant ...

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The cleric has used the tactic on previous occasions ... Sadr's announcement appeared to be a reaction to the retirement of Shia spiritual leader Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, who counts many of ...

Earlier, he had met religious leaders/intellectuals of the Muslim community and held detailed discussion with Sunni cleric Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali and Shia cleric Maulana Saif Abbas ...