Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat praised mass protests in Sana’a and other provinces as a strong message against insults to ...
WASHINGTON — A New York imam and his proposed mosque near ground zero are being demonized by political candidates — mostly Republicans — despite the fact that Islam is already very much a part of the ...
CAIRO — Former leader of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group Mahdi Akef, who had been detained since 2013, has died of complications from cancer and other health issues at age 89, a Brotherhood ...
Hojatoleslam Sayyed Mohammad Baqir Kashmiri, Director of the Imam Mahdi Center in the United States, visited Boston where he ...
In the chaos, Ayad al-Fartoosi thrived. Against a backdrop of death and panic in Sadr City last Thursday, he strode confidently through streets littered with burning cars and charred bodies. At one ...
https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0037 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0037 Copy URL Abstract This study explores modern Islamic messianism ...
In a grungy restaurant with plastic tables in central Baghdad, the young Mahdi Army commander was staring earnestly. His beard was closely cropped around his jaw, his face otherwise cleanshaven. The ...