Over the past few decades, the country has been the standard-bearer of social and cultural developments in the region. Under the influence of Habib Bourguiba, the founder and first president of the republic, who was in office from July 25, 1957 until November 7, 1987, Tunisia became one of the most Westernized Arab countries and mostly employed extremist secularists to run the state.
No other country in the Arab world and the entire Middle East ...
It is convened by the Noor-Al-Zahar (AS) Quarnic Institute and will be continued for two years, three days a week, based on a programmed and precise plan.
The teaching course is in the frame work of international Quran competition\'s principles and the age limit for the participants is announced 16-35.
Besides the lessons offered in the field of teaching memorization, the rules regarding the recitation of Quran, Quran sciences and ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Pakistani security forces have captured a key commander of the militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country's southern city of Karachi.
Security forces arrested Asmat Ullah Mehsud during a raid in Karachi's Industrial and Trading Estate area on Monday, Police officials told Press TV.
According to officials, the arrested militant commander was planning to carry out terror attacks in the ...
-- Ahmed Naseem, member of Maldives’ Fiqh Academy, has said that there are very good Dhivehi translations of Holy Quran by private scholars.
Speaking in a press conference by the Islamic Ministry, Naseem said that there is a good translation by Sheikh Aboobarkuru Ibrahim as well. He also said that he has obtained a copy and is now analyzing the translation.
State Minister, Mohamed Shameem Ali Saeed also said that Adhaalath Party had ...
Saudi Arabian authorities have confiscated 784 suitcases belonging to hajj pilgrims leaving the kingdom because they were carrying bottles of holy water.M. Raefi, the head of the Religious Affairs Office in Jember, East Java, said on Monday that about 900 suitcases belonging to pilgrims from the district had initially been seized, but the rest had later been released.He added that all the bags had been held because they contained various amounts ...
A Saudi man waited for construction workers to leave a mosque project site at night, entered the building and stole nearly SR40,000 ($10,800) worth of power cables, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Thursday.A resident who happened to be passing in the area saw the thief leaving the site in the eastern province of Ihsa, the Arabic language daily 'Alihsa' said.“He provided police with the man’s descriptions…a few hours later the ...
London, (IRNA): Britain’s new coalition government has been hit with the first scandal just two weeks since being formed after it was revealed that a key cabinet minister had claimed some £40,000 ($60,000) excess in expenses over the last eight years. In a statement apologising for the scandal, Chief Secretary of the Treasury David Laws also admitted that he had been in a homosexual relationship which he had been keeping secret. Laws, who ...
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described unity as the only solution to the problems the Muslims are facing, saying the “arrogant powers” have created religious wars in the Islamic countries to divert attention from the fight against Israel. “The current division and differences in the region are artificial and imposed (phenomenon), and the Islamic world’s clerics, intelligentsia, ...
-- Construction project of a cultural-Islamic Center of Blois, France, will be started on December 1 by "Live Together" Association in France.
According to Lanouvellerepublique, Mohamed Mazghi, head of the association said, "Officially permitted by Municipality of Blois, the center is planned to be constructed in cooperation with Muslim investors to provide an opportunity for holding dialogue between followers of various religions as well as ...
The 27-year-old woman, identified as Zahra Saleh, was injured in the forehead by an iron rod hurled by Saudi-backed Bahraini troops during an anti-regime protest in the village of Daih on November 18.
The young protester, who had had been hospitalized with serious injuries since then, died early on Wednesday. Some reports suggest that she was not participating in the protest and that she was a passerby when regime troops attacked ...
Most members of the Iranian Quranic delegation to Hajj will leave the holy city of Medina for Makkah today, November 3.
12 members of the 32-strong group will wear the Ihram and leave Medina to join the other 7 who are in Makkah. The rest of the group will be in Makkah on Friday.
Titled Nur (the light), the group consists of some of the most prominent Quran reciters and memorizers of the country as well as a Tawasheeh group.
Their ...
-- Saudi Arabian authorities have given the assurance that there will be enough water to cater for the millions of pilgrims during the Haj at the end of this month.
Sixty-three water storage tanks in Mecca and the holy sites, with a total capacity of 2.5 million cubic metres, will be filled for the use of the pilgrims, Saudi Arabian English daily "Arab News" quoted the General Supervisor of the Directorate of Water, Muhammad Ahmad Bughdadi, as ...
The bibliography only considers Persian books, in other words, it introduces art's compiled and translated books which have been released in Persian. The sources do not include theses, magazines, articles and websites.
The indexed sources have been categorized according to 6 groups; "Art's theoretical studies and basics", "The history of arts", "Designs", "Architecture and urbanism", "Writing and painting" as well as "Handicrafts".
The book ...
According to Ahlul Bayt (A) News Agency – ABNA.ir – The city, which is home to the grand ayatollahs who wield huge influence among Iraq’s Shiite majority community, will be the first in the country to get a rapid transit system, with proposals for a Baghdad metro still very much on the drawing board. The monorail will ferry pilgrims between Najaf’s most revered shrines, the Mausoleum of Imam Ali in the city center and the Grand and ...
-- American Muslim activists teamed up with Christian colleagues to fundraise and build a house for a homeless family in Longview, Washington, showing the true face of Islam at a time the nation is recovering from a deadly killing spree blamed on a Muslim army soldier.
"They have all come together fundraised $45,000 to build this home," Sabrina Kirkland, a resource development coordinator with Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization ...
Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes between government forces and members of the al-Shabab militant group in Somalia.The fighting erupted on Wednesday after al-Shabab launched an ambush on a military convoy in the southwestern region of Gedo. At least 32 al-Shebab militants and 11 government troops were killed in the fighting, according to government sources.Al-Shebab has claimed responsibility for the attack, but alleged ...
A Bahraini infant has martyred in a poison gas attack carried out by regime forces in a residential area.Bahraini activists said, Sajida Faisal Javad, six-day-old baby martyred of asphyxia from inhaling tear gas fired on protesters in a residential area near the capital Manama on Thursday. Saudi-backed Bahraini forces continue attacks on anti-regime demonstrators in towns and villages across the country. On Wednesday, 27-year-old Zahra Saleh, ...
Head of Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, announced on his account on Twitter that Sayyed Abdul Malek Al-Houthi met with Griffiths who is on a visit to ...
