Sunday 14 December shooting at the Jewish festival Hanukkah gathering at Sydney's iconic Bondi beach claimed the lives of 16 Jews and left 40 others injured. The father-son duo, 50-year-old Sajid ...
Recently, The Supreme Court agreed to examine a plea to ban practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision prevailing in Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and issued notice to Centre ...
1. The virtue of religion is generally recognized by its adherents. 2. The majority of Muslim countries today are in a deplorable situation when it comes to individual human rights, women's education, ...
Two of Britain’s biggest organizations for women and girls, Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute, have said they will no longer accept transgender members, citing a court ruling on biological sex.
The idea of a free media is one that we at NewAgeIslam.com hold in the highest regard. We believe in bringing our site visitors, readers and audio listeners or video viewers the widest possible array ...
The violent communist regime in Afghanistan forced Dr. Sima Samar to flee her homeland in the 1980s, but she has since become a powerful force inside Karzai's administration and through her aid ...
According to Shia version of Sharia law, marrying a girl [either adult or infant] is legitimate in Iran. Any male can marry a girl or woman in that country, which is under the cruel grips of ...
LaaYamoot: Ek Khudnawisht, the autobiographical work of Rashid Shaz, stands as a monumental testament to the turbulent history and resilient spirit of Indian Muslims, told through the intimate….
Shah Abdul Aziz (d. 1824) acted as a bridge between medieval and modern times in India’s socio-religious and intellectual history. He emerged as a prominent figure among Indian Muslims after the ...
This study on the spread of Islam in Kerala examines the arrival and growth of Islam in Kerala and other reasons that drove it. The spread and growth of Islam in Kerala from the advent of Islam to the ...
Noor—an Arabic-origin word etymologically meaning light and illumination— is one of the attributes of God in Islam. Allah is the light of heavens and the earth and is the only source of light, says ...
Recently Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of Shia Waqf Board in Uttar Pradesh filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking to remove 26 verses from the Quran. In this petition he has said that these ...