Historically, Saudi Arabia has adhered to a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, particularly the Wahhabi movement, which emphasizes a literal interpretation of the Quran and Hadith. This ...

How a book on monotheism turned into the bedrock of extremism, and why sufism is its antidote Kitab al-Tawheed (The Book of Monotheism), authored by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the 18th century, is ...

The New York Times” promotes the smear that the prime minister let more blood be shed to cling to power. It was his opponents, however, who played politics about Gaza.The ...

The revelation of Chinese military support to Pakistan during the military confrontation that followed the Pakistan-directed ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

The international scene in India's view today is marked by a tentativeness injected by US President Donald Trump in the Uni ...

Iran has carefully cultivated an image for itself in the Arab street and the larger Muslim world as being a morally upright ...

More crucially, the fanatical Wahhabi ideology the Saudi monarchy exports is one of the main reasons many rebel groups resisting these forms of injustice and oppression become Salafi Islamists ...

Although a triangular contest between Iran, Israel and the Arab states of the Gulf- principally Saudi Arabia and UAE- marked the scene in the Middle East, it is the military confrontation between Iran ...

Although a triangular contest between Iran, Israel and the Arab states of the Gulf- principally Saudi Arabia and UAE- marked ...

The antics at Glastonbury last weekend took place in performance spaces with twee names such as ‘Woodsie’s Stage’, ‘Avalon’, ...

Qatar has been happy to use its vast wealth to infiltrate many aspects of American and Western society, and its biggest export isn't gas it's terrorism.The post How do you ...