Andalusian philosopher is known for a number of key ideas adopted by later Sufis, including the unity of being, the concept ...

Crowds waved flags and chanted in rallies in cities including Damascus and Aleppo to celebrate the victory of rebels in ...

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

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

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Researcher and author Diana Darke argues that the connections between Islamic and Christian cultures during the medieval period were stronger than commonly believed. This cross-fertilization of ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa calls for national unity and peace amid violence in coastal regions at a Damascus ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail As accusations of the widespread killing of Alawite civilians have emerged, Syrian President ...

Some 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City under tight security by Israeli forces ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in a wary climate stirred by a standoff over the Gaza ceasefire and an ...

Masjid al-Haram, also known as Masjidil Haram, is the oldest and largest mosque in the world located around the Ka'bah. Prophet Ibrahim (AS) and his son Prophet Ismail (AS) laid the foundations of the ...