The month of Muharram, sacred to Muslims, also holds deep significance for the Hussaini Brahmins—a Hindu community with ancestral ties to the Battle of Karbala. Descended from warriors like Rahab Datt ...

All standard seasons of South Park, from the very first to the most recent, have been removed from the platform without any ...

Muharram marks the beginning of the new Islamic year. Here's what to know about its historical significance and what it means to Muslims.

Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians—those who still recall the seventh-century Battle of Karbala, which led to the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein—will not fail to remember the ...

State-run television showed Khamenei entering the ceremony hall, waving and nodding at a chanting crowd before taking his seat. There was no immediate statement made by him during the event.

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith.

Four employees of a satirical magazine in Turkey have been arrested for publishing a cartoon that appears to show the Prophet Muhammad - a sacred religious figure whose depiction is forbidden in ...

Muslim African-American women in the U.S. sometimes wear a hijab to signal their religious affiliation. They also want to dispel the assumption that all African-Americans are Christians, and that only ...

Turkish police have detained a cartoonist for Leman magazine over a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad greeting Prophet Moses in a war zone.

Mecca, of course, is a holy city of Islam in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and a pilgrimage destination. From its Arabic origin, this Mecca is more properly rendered as Makka.

The Quran and the Prophet Muhammad’s example laid out clear legal and ethical guidelines for the conduct of war, well before similar frameworks appeared in other societies.