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The actions of the Islamic State are anything but Islamic, and Muslims must battle extremism to maintain the religion’s message of mercy, the grand mufti of Egypt told CNN. Sheikh Shawky Ibrahim Abdel ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed controversial comments he made about the Holocaust, saying he never meant to claim that an Islamic leader persuaded Adolf Hitler to adopt the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia 's grand mufti who served the kingdom's top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ...

When a news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly ...

Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar, a 94-year-old Muslim cleric known as the ‘Grand Mufti of India,’ has played a significant role in the halting of the execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya in Sana ...

Nuriddin Kholiknazarov has the qualities to heal the country's divisions. A figure of interest to societies throughout Central Asia. He is supported by Uzbek President Mirziyoyev. A moderate believer ...

Mumbai A product of Cairo’s Al Azhar University, son of an Islamic scholar from Karnataka, and a follower of the Sunni Barelvi school of Islam which is followed by the majority of Indian Muslims, ...