Andalusian philosopher is known for a number of key ideas adopted by later Sufis, including the unity of being, the concept ...

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

Crowds waved flags and chanted in rallies in cities including Damascus and Aleppo to celebrate the victory of rebels in ...

They're the men no country wants. Locked up and accused of being Islamic State fighters, they're considered a threat to the ...

Researcher and author Diana Darke argues that the connections between Islamic and Christian cultures during the medieval period were stronger than commonly believed. This cross-fertilization of ...

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of ...

When Economist correspondent Sarah Birke left Damascus in 2011 she wasn’t sure she’d ever return, or what she’d find if she did. Then, in December, Syrian rebels unexpectedly captured the ...

The online service, moreover, provides multiple options for performing rituals including the circumambulation of the Holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque as well the full rites of the Umrah or minor ...

The owner of one of the area’s many textile factories commissioned the Zebun Nessa Mosque, named for his late mother, as a ...