Just over a year ago, in mid-September 2017, the Islamic State issued a statement retracting its highly controversial memo on the issue of takfir (excommunication) and announcing its “return to the ...

The mufti of Moscow and the chief imam of Moscow’s Cathedral Mosque has dubbed the Islamic State (IS) militant group a “political organization that has nothing to do with religion.” In an interview ...

The actions of the Islamic State are anything but Islamic, and Muslims must battle extremism to maintain the religion’s message of mercy, the grand mufti of Egypt told CNN. Sheikh Shawky Ibrahim Abdel ...

Penang mufti Sukki Othman said politicising the status of Islam will only sow confusion, fear, and division in society. (Facebook pic) Penang mufti Sukki Othman has advised against politicising the ...

Abdullah Nu’man hopes to bridge the gap between the divided Muslim communities in Serbia. The newly elected leader of one of Serbia’s two Islamic communities aspires to heal the long-running conflicts ...

NORTH SMITHFIELD — Walking over a red carpet between his office and the main prayer space of Masjid al-Islam, Mufti Ikram ul-Haq stopped for a moment to comment on the memories, mostly culinary, that ...

The mufti of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has defended a fatwa adopted at an Islamic gathering in Grozny that proclaimed all nontraditional Islamic teachings across Russia as extremist.

UFA, October 22. /TASS/. The ideology of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization that calls for killing infidels is "ignorance", Chief Mufti of Russia, head of the Central Muslim Spiritual ...

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, has said the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda were “enemy number one of Islam” and ...