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06 May 2012 Hussein al-Kharsan, a 25-year-old Iraqi, aims to writie the longest copy of the Qur'an in the world. Kharsan says t ...

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18 June 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a bid to enhance cooperation and integration with Islamic countr ...

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28 March 2012 Islamic bonds (sukuk) have staged a massive comeback since 2011, after several gloomy years in which even Muslim ...

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27 June 2012 Mario Scialoja (pictured), a retired Italian diplomat and the first president of the Italian office of the World M ...

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26 February 2012 The Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF), a Southest Asian fashion event established in Malaysia in 2006, was hosted ...

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18 February 2012 Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have launched an ideological campaign amid ...

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27 June 2012 PBS will premier its state-of-the-art 90-minute documentary on Islamic art from 8-10:30 p.m. on WTVP-HD on Friday, ...

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10 June 2012 After a year of research and preparation, the giant screen film IMAX JERUSALEM 3D advanced into production with an ...

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13 March 2012 The Arab World Institute (Institut du Monde Arabe) in Paris, which has just turned 25, has completely re ...

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Tunis: Tunisia is not confronted by the threat of Islamic extremism and the country is being administered by a coalition government which includes the parties belonging to the center-leftist wing. By Farhan Iqbal

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CAIRO - Despite hailing to different countries, a new Islamic center in Bronx borough in New York City is unifying American Muslims of West African origin.“It has been a difficult, long road,” Bakary Camara, 47, a member of ...

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BERLIN - Germany's Muslims and Jews have joined hands to protest a court ruling banning circumcision, calling for a legal protection of the religious ritual. We consider this to be an affront (to) our basic religious and h ...

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ABUJA - More than 100 people were burnt to death, including women and children, in an oil tanker fire in southern Nigeria on Thursday, July 12, in the latest catastrophe in Africa's most populous African country. More than ...

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KARACHI - As the clock is ticking for Muslims worldwide to welcome the holy fasting month, Pakistan's various religious and literary organizations have kicked off “ Istaqbal-e-Ramadan” (Welcome Ramadan) programs across the So ...

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CAIRO - The holy fasting month of Ramwadan will start on Friday, July 20, according to astronomical calculations.“The Ramadan moon will be born on Thursday, July 19,” Hatem Ouda, chairman of Egypt's National Research Insti ...

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CAIRO - Differences on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan are forcing Muslim minorities across Europe to turn to modern astronomy to help determine the first day of the fasting month. In the modern world, especiall ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Amid Israeli denial of involvement in his demise, new suspicions that iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death was caused by poison have triggered calls for a new autopsy to determine the cause of ...

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CAIRO - Public enmity to mosques and a crunching economic crisis are stalling plans to build Muslim worship places in Greece, forcing worshippers to go underground to fulfil their religious duties. All the other religions ...

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ABUJA - Poverty, inequality and injustice are threatening to trigger a broad sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, an international task force said on Wednesday, July 11. There is a possibility that ...

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CAIRO - A public execution of an Afghan woman on accusations of adultery is inviting a storm of outrage across Afghanistan, with Muslim scholars condemning the practice as running against the teachings of Islam. The true [ ...