Show portraying life of first Umayyad caliph banned in Iraq over sectarian tension fears and criticised in Egypt over ...

In his new book 'The Islamic Moses,' US-based author Mustafa Akyol turns to the Quran's focus on a shared prophet to ...

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman…her wings are cut and blamed for not knowing how to fly,” Simone de Beauvoir ...

For decades, this simple structure built by ‘Umar remained the main building on the Haram. In 690, however, the caliph ‘Abd al ... people first and the land second. “From the river to ...

Within one generation of Muhammad’s death two successive Muslim caliphs, Umar and Uthman, had been assassinated brutally ... Yazid I, who was the second caliph of the Umayyad Empire. In Shia tradition ...

The roles of the second and third caliphs, Umar ibn al-Khattab and Uthman ibn Affan, along with Amr ibn al-As and Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, are played by Syrians Samer Al-Masri, Ayman Zidan, Wael Sharaf, ...