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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - NOVEMBER 20: A Pakistani child herds animals to a market set for Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Islamabad on November 20, 2009. Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of...
Mobily is giving pilgrims phone lines for SAR 99 - and is throwing in a mobile phone. Mobily said that it is offering the bundle in cooperation with one of its partners, Axiom Telecom. The SIM in the bundle is a Rihal line,...
By Matthew Fisher, Canwest News ServiceNovember 21, 2009 12:02 PM Photograph by: Canwest News Service, Canwest News Service KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian and Afghan forces captured a key Taliban-controlled village Saturday...
In Islamic law, najis (Arabic: نجس) are things or persons regarded as ritually unclean. According to Shi'a Islam, there are two kinds of najis: the essential najis which can not be cleaned and the unessential najis which...
Excerpt: The community of Ismaili Shia Muslims to which Miriam and Habib belonged was small but very enterprising. Its founder, Jivan Keshavjee, had arrived in Pretoria in 1894, about the time the Coolie Location was set aside...
Days before a forecast three million Muslim pilgrims pack Mecca to begin the holy ritual of the hajj, the specter of a possible outbreak of swine flu seems to be fazing few of them. There might be posters in the streets,...
The pilgrimage to Mecca has a deeper meaning than just fulfilling the Pillar of Islam. This spiritual and physical journey taken by Muslims on a global scale, for the past 1,400 years, is documented in an exhibition currently...
Kozhikode: Defying prohibitory orders clamped by the district administration, activists of the Hindu Aikya Vedi staged a demonstration at Muthalakulam here on Friday. Earlier, the organisation decided to take out a march to the...
Faithful Muslims don't eat pork. The same logic can be applied to the Islamic banking system, said Islamic finance scholar Siddhartha Herdegen. Herdegen, who splits his time between Bahrain and Salt Lake City and received an...
Azam Khan: One of millions of Muslims performing the hajj to Islam's holy sites Background: Born and raised in Albany, graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in international business. He was a business development...
