I am in my late fifties in age. I was born into a Catholic Family on my mother's side, and into a Baptist family on my father's side.

A Taunton woman has described how she converted to Islam to “make her life better for herself and her family”.

The recent criminal attacks against the Coptic Church in Alexandria form part of a new link in a chain of terrorist acts experienced by many countries in the world, which targeted thousands of innocent people of different faiths and races and were committed by perpetrators belonging to different religions and nationalities

In the shadow of the imperialist project against the heart of the Muslim world, the causes of ethnic and sectarian frictions, as well as the mechanisms for their resolution, have been dragged into a wider, more complex political dynamic. Over the past decade, we have witnessed sectarian tensions, in one form or another, ....

In the following interview, Mahan Abedin makes enquiries to a leading Shiite figure in India, Seyed Mohammad Asgari, about a wide range of issues affecting Indian Shiites, in particular their relationship with the majority Sunni population. The picture that emerges offers a striking contrast to the situation in neighbouring Pakistan

Recent reports have indicated that the central bank will soon move to regulate an Islamic commercial bank. What exactly is involved in Islamic banking?

Layla Mandi is a young Canadian Muslim woman who has single-handedly ventured into the still unexplored field of manufacturing and marketing a wide range of Halal beauty products

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is quite optimistic these days. He is even nearly euphoric about the recent recognition by a number of South American states of Palestine. His Fatah organization cites these "diplomatic successes" as a proof for the correctness of Abbas's approach.

Salute to the innocent souls of these angles whose wings are burnt!

Maybe it was the really loud celebratory Ak-47 Kalashnikov and small arms gunfire and fireworks in my South Beirut neighborhood that triggered the intense New Years Eve nightmare. Or I guess it could have been the seemingly, just below my bedroom window, launched RPG-7’s which followed minutes past midnight on January 1, 2011.

Some Israeli officials have voiced surprise at revelations published by Wikileaks showing that the Egyptian military continues to view the apartheid Israeli regime as the primary strategic threat facing Egypt.

Every year without fail someone will ask me if I celebrate Christmas. The question is always asked with guarded caution. People don't want to pry, but really don't know what Muslims believe about Jesus and Christmas

The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam

As the Taliban fights to make a comeback in Afghanistan, no group is in more danger than the Shias (Hazara Shia). The Taliban’s favorite victims, hundreds of Shia families froze to death while fleeing their villages during winter attacks by the Taliban.

The message was read with delineating some important points. Then the Kremlin’s special interpreters translate it for Mr. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and two other people that attended the meeting. If a point was not lucid for the interpreter, he asked and after understanding the point translated it to Gorbachev. During reading the message and translating it that took 65 minutes, translators wrote down some points and Gorbachev also took some notes himself.

When I became a Muslim thirteen years ago this month, I left behind the Christmas traditions my family celebrated every year of my childhood

It seems that a few of the Tea Party's representatives in the midterm elections concluded that voters would like their favorite drink brewed with very hot anti-Muslim spices.

The worldwide market for Islamically permitted goods, called halal, has grown to more than half a billion dollars annually. Ritually slaughtered meat is a mainstay, but the halal industry is much broader, including foods and seasoning that omit alcohol, pork products and other forbidden ingredients, along with cosmetics, finance and clothing

What happened to the "Honour your father and your mother [which includes grandfather and grandmother]: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God giveth you?"

Discussing the legality of temporary marriage should not in any way be perceived as encouraging youths to engage in such a practice.

The companions of Imam Husain’s (a,s) who martyred on the day of Ashura in the land of Karbala were from different cities and tribes. Some of them were from Bani Hashim. Some of them were with Imam from Medina and some other joined him in Mecca or on the road and some were from Medina. Some of the companions of Imam Husain’s (a,s) martyred before the day of Ashura, their name is here too.

Through a brief study and reflection on some verses of the Holy Qur'an, one can find numerous examples of Islamic clemency and mercy in this Divine Book, which is the basis and foundation of Islam.

In his will to Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said, "My son, know that you have been created for the next world and not for this world, and for annihilation and not for stay, for death and not for life; you are in a transient place, a place which is a path to the Hereafter... You are driving away a death from which no one can run away and which none of its seekers can miss. It has to be experienced, so beware lest it catches up with you while you are in a bad state." (Nahjul Balagha, Letter 31)

Alan Dershowitz, the American Zionist fanatic, is notorious for his brashly racist views about just anything non-Jewish. For example, he is against Muslim immigrants to Europe because their dietary habits don't suite his taste. He wholeheartedly supports the rampant terror, criminality and vandalism perpetrated by Judeo-Nazi thugs in the West Bank, otherwise known as Jewish settlers, against helpless Palestinian farmers and peasants.

On this historical and auspicious day on the divine orders of Allah Almighty (SWT), the Holy Prophet of Islam (pbuh) formally declared Imam Ali (AS) as 'The Caliph of the Muslims after the Holy Prophet of Islam (pbuh) saying: To Whom I'm Lord, Ali is Lord, O Allah! Befriend whoever befriend him and be hostile to whosoever is hostile to him."