The series was not broadcast on any Egyptian TV channels or platforms, only on MBC and Shahed. It was known that the director ...

In interviews with The New Arab, viewers and scholars expressed outrage over the Muawiya TV series’ controversial depiction ...

Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, condemned renewed Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday as “black terrorism”, criticizing world powers for greenlighting Tel Aviv to kill ...

At a critique session on the series Muawiya held at the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, history and Islamic experts, and ...

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They demand khilafat or a caliphate to replace Bangladesh’s flawed democracy. They also want the Islamic rule and Sharia to extend to the neighbourhood, especially India, and the rest of the world.

According to Sunni Muslims, Muawiya became one of the scribes of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and after the demise of the Prophet, he was appointed by the first caliph, Abu Bakr, as the deputy ...

the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, which is considered the point of contention between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Senior Scholars Authority at Al-Azhar Mosque issued a ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent ... The region’s great wealth and declining rulership under the Fatimid Shi’ite Caliphate made it a tempting target. Shirkuh, with a young Saladin in his ranks, ...

One of the other main shortcomings of the current strategy and approach has been a failure to assuage the local Sunni population’s concerns about what follows the destruction of ISIS and its caliphate ...