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Germany

Iran boycotts Frankfurt Book Fair over Salman Rushdie appearance

Iran is boycotting this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair because of an appearance by British Indian author Salman Rushdie. He was the subject of an

14/10/2015

Culture news

Burqa-clad metal guitarist shredding stereotypes in Brazil

Thrashing stereotypes as she shreds the guitar. Gisele Marie has been fronting her brother’s heavy metal band Spectrus since 2012. Born in Sao Paulo

30/09/2015

Saudi Arabia

Hajj: Saudi authorities reject queries over death toll

The Saudi authorities have denied suggestions that more than a thousand people died in the tragedy last week – and say the death toll stands at 769

29/09/2015

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Tensions in Jerusalem during Jewish holiday

29/09/2015

Saudi Arabia

More than 700 pilgrims die in stampede at Hajj near Mecca

More than 700 dead and over 850 injured is the sickening death toll following a stampede near Mecca during the Hajj religious festival. Pilgrims were

24/09/2015

Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat for Hajj's key moment

The Hajj pilgrimage marks its most important day on Wednesday with the ascension of Mount Arafat, the climax of the five-day religious festival which

23/09/2015

Saudi Arabia

How well do you know the Hajj? Ten facts about Islam's annual gathering

Today sees the start of the Hajj, considered to be the largest mass gathering in the world, with at least 2.6 million pilgrims expected to

22/09/2015

USA

Trump under fire in US over Obama 'Muslim' comment

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is under fire in the US for not correcting a man who said Barack Obama is a Muslim. It happened at one

19/09/2015

India

"Un-Islamic" : India's Muslim clerics issue fatwa against IS

A fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning the self-titled Islamic State group as “un-Islamic” has been signed by the leaders of all the main mosques

09/09/2015

United Kingdom

One of oldest copies of Koran found in Birmingham library

Birmingham University library claims to house one of the oldest surviving copies of the Koran in the world. Radiocarbon dating suggests fragments of

22/07/2015

United Kingdom

Oldest fragments of the Koran found in Birmingham, UK

A British university says fragments of a Koran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in

22/07/2015

Saudi Arabia

Crisis and conflict overshadow Eid in the Middle East

In Mecca, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, like Muslims around the world, has marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and the start of the Eid

18/07/2015

Saudi Arabia

Eid al-Fitr 2015: Muslims mark the end of Ramadan around the world

Lasting several days the festival began with the start of the lunar month of Shawwal which differs every year.

17/07/2015

World News

Eid: the Muslim world prepares for the end of Ramadan

Last minute preparations are underway across the Muslim world, to mark the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the three-day festival of Eid-al-Fitr

16/07/2015

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Newly-identified Srebrenica victims taken to final resting place

A truck carrying coffins with the remains of 136 victims of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Holocaust: the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The

09/07/2015

France

Google mosque search plunges web giant into controversy

07/07/2015

Series

Postcards from Kazakhstan: the massive mausoleum revered by pilgrims

The spectacular Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi dominates the landscape near Turkistan

06/07/2015

Tunisia

What is driving the surge in terrorism in Tunisia?

The recent increase in terrorism in Tunisia has been attributed to a number of factors. Among those are: a widening rift between Sunni and Shia

30/06/2015

Syria

ISIS blows up two ancient Islamic mausoleums in Palmyra

23/06/2015

World News

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins

For most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, dawn on Thursday 18 marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.. It is a time of prayer and

18/06/2015