and follow The Six Articles of Faith (a set of six important religious beliefs). Shia is the second largest branch of Islam. Shia Muslims follow beliefs known as the Five Roots of Usul ad-Din.

While the main responsibility of Sunni Caliphs was to maintain law and order in the Muslim realm, as descendants of the Prophet, Shia Imams (spiritual leaders) also provided religious guidance and ...

Prominent Shia cleric Maulana Javed Haider Zaidi has strongly opposed the ongoing surveys of religious sites, stating that ...

The Islamic State, which emerged in the 1970s, brutalised religious minorities like the Ahmadiyya and the Shia. Then, “a ...

I say this as an imam of the Shia community in Lebanon—the biggest threat to Lebanon and the Middle East is the radical ...

As Israel and Iran clash, Iraq’s Shia leadership is trying to rein in domestic Iranian-backed paramilitaries to shield the ...

The systematic targeting of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, particularly in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has grown into a humanitarian crisis. The escalating violence against the Shia ...