“His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto and President General Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has declared Friday, 31th July, 2020 as the 10th day of Zulhijja 1441 AH and the...

The Federal Government has praised Kano and other states that have announced ban on Sallah festivities as part of measures to tackle the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The government urged Nigerians to continue to observe the COVID-19...

It is reported on the authority of Al-Wakî’ b. Al-Jarrâh: We went out one Eid with Sufyân Al-Thawrî and he said, “The first thing we will do on this day of ours is to lower our gaze.” Ibn Abî Al-Dunyâ, Kitâb Al-Wara’....

Every year tens of thousands of people celebrate Eid in Birmingham. There are two main Eid events in the Islamic calendar. Eid al-Fitr falls at the end of the ninth month, Ramadan, while Eid al-Adha comes within the 12th and final...

What is it? One of the most important holidays of the Islamic calendar, Eid al-Adha marks the height of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It commemorates the story in the Quran of God appearing to Ibrahim -- also...

It is that time of the year again when Muslims across the world celebrate the holiest festival in their calendar, known as Eid-el-Kabir. The festival honours the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son, Isma’il as an act...

Turkey’s top administrative court, the Council of State is likely to announce today the restoration of the Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque reversing an 86-year-old decree by the Council of Ministers under the presidency of the republic’s secularist...

First tranche of the issue is $665mln and the total tranche size is $1.33bln, maturing in 2027 × Android App Icon ZAWYA Refinitiv FREEGET THE APP ZAWYA ☰ HOMEMARKETSARTICLE ISLAMIC FINANCE|29 JUNE, 2020Saudi raises $2.27bln in Islamic bonds - finance ministry First tranche of the issue is $665mln and...

(RNS) — Shaykh Hassan Lachheb remembers first dreaming of hajj as a child, looking at small Polaroid photographs of his father at an airport in his native Morocco as he left for the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi...

The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville is investigating how it came to publish a full-page ad on Sunday by a biblical prophecy group claiming “Islam” would detonate a bomb in the city. The ad, which included a photo collage of President...