the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, which is considered the point of contention between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Senior Scholars Authority at Al-Azhar Mosque issued a ...

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

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

He allied himself with the notorious leader of ISIS and then broke away just before that group’s fatal decision to declare a caliphate ... them to a Shiite mosque, risking his life.

Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that ... replaced by an Islamic state or caliphate. Sharaa needed to appear to adhere to that worldview ...

Mshatta, one of Jordan's largest desert castles and a major Umayyad palace in the Levant, is located around 32 km south of ...

Even though Ali was finally appointed the fourth caliph, the caliphate model of leadership ... a poisoned sword while he was at prayer in the mosque in Kufa, Iraq in 661 CE. In 680 CE another ...

The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic architecture ... How could Christians take precedence over Muslims in the heart of the caliphate? The difficulty was that the Ottoman Empire was ...

The first two episodes of Muawiya, an eponymous 30-part Ramadan series about the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty ... Rashidun (rightly-guided) caliphate. A screengrab from the ...