One of the most important religious occasions among Shia Muslims is the 15th of the sixth Islamic month of Shaban, which is the birthday of twelfth Imam of Shia Muslims, Imam Mahdi. Mid-Shaban has ...

The momentous and singular aspects of his birth greatly resembled those under which the Prophet Moses (AS) was born. The birth of Hazrat Moses (AS) had signaled the downfall and extinction of the ...

Amidst this, a stark contrast appears between the vitality of the Resistance civil society and the state’s political inability to fulfill its most basic duties. In Beirut’s Sports City—where ...

TEHRAN - Shaban 15, 1427 (Sep. 9, 2006) is the birth anniversary of the promised one and the only real savior of all mankind, the 12th infallible Imam of the Shia, Hazrat Mahdi (AS), whose followers ...

Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...

On Thursday, more than 2 million Shi’a devotees will gather at the holy city of Karbala to celebrate the birth anniversary of the Twelfth Shi’a Imam, Imam al-Mahdi. This celebration marks the ...

Many pilgrims among Iraq’s Shia majority perform annual Shaabaniya pilgrimage to Karbala remotely, to curb virus. Iraq has urged pilgrims to respect a nationwide curfew during the Shaabaniya ...

or more than 10 years, neighbors have known Winardi as an introverted security guard for a hotel in Jakarta and as a traditional healer. So when police officers and local Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI ...

“I HAVE this question for you,” says Abu Ahmed, a businessman with a grey beard from Iraq's southern city of Basra. “Why did the British and foreign forces come to Iraq? Didn't Bush and Blair invade ...