“The world is unable to present an example finer and brighter than the personality of Imam Hussain (A.S.). He was the embodiment of love, valor, and personification of sacrifice and devotion. Every Muslim, in particular, must learn a lesson...
The event of Karbala marks the greatest sacrifice for the sake of God in the human history. The minute and stunning details of this great event have been written and survived from the very first day by the eye...
By: Mr. Ali Al- Qadumi
MANAMA, Bahrain: I was walking with Youssef Gaigi, a friend of mine, past a Pakistani in Dubai in late February 2005. I saw some guys hitting their chests and chanting and I wondered what was...
These are Shias observing Ashura in Pakistan a couple years ago. They are taking cover because they are under gunfire attack by their ‘fellow’ Muslims. Every year, scores of people are killed for observing Ashura, violence which to me...
Long Banned Ritual Marks a Public Revival
By Mr. Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, April 16, 2003: Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 15 — Like the soulful drumbeat of a funeral procession, hundreds of Shiite Muslim men swung their arms to heaven...
By Mr. Sami Jumaili
KARBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi holy city of Karbala was shrouded in black on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite pilgrims converged to mourn the death of the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson here 1,300 years...
By Mr. Michael Muhammad Knight
Michael Muhammad Knight is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth. Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur.
He obtained a...
The writer caused a row by confirming that Prophet Jesus prophesied the appearance of Imam Hussain. He argues that “I am a Christian but call on humanity to follow the holiness of Imam Hussain as he is the conscience...
Interview with Dr. Paul Joseph al-Hilw
A Christian scholar
Doctor Paul Joseph al-Hilw, is a Christian academic who specializes in the study of human societies and their traditions and customs, he is a Lebanese Maronite. He has been a professor and...
By Prof. Annemarie Schimmel
Harvard University
Professor Emerita of Indo-Muslim culture in the department of Near Eastern language and civilizations, died on Sunday, January 26, in a hospital in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 80. Professor Schimmel, a world-renowned scholar...
