A multimillion-dollar Saudi television production portraying the life of an early Islamic ruler has caused controversy in the ...

The Saudis could regain the political and financial clout they once enjoyed in Lebanon, which was lost for two decades to Hezbollah and its foreign patrons. Could that restore a measure of prosperity ...

A Shia Muslim judge abducted in eastern Saudi Arabia a year ago has been killed by his kidnappers, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Monday. Sheikh Mohammed al-Jirani disappeared last ...

A television series about the life of the Umayyad caliph, Muawiya, titled "Mo'awey," which was banned in Iraq due to the ...

For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the following day, authorities announced.

Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after ...

Saudi Arabia follows Hanbali fiqh influenced by Salafi interpretations. Iran applies Ja’fari fiqh under theocratic Shia rule. The UAE has adopted Maliki fiqh blended with modern civil laws.