Norway honours Oslo mosque shooting heroes
Norway has honoured two Muslim heroes who tackled a neo-Nazi gunmen at a mosque near Oslo last year.
Muhammad Rafiq, 66, and Mohammad Iqbal, who...
Did UK Special Forces execute unarmed civilians in Afghanistan?
It has emerged that the government withheld evidence from a court which suggested that SAS soldiers had executed 33 civilians in Afghanistan in early 2011.
The Guardian reports...
Ending the tyranny of the U.S. dollar
Veteran Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan argues that the inevitable decline of the U.S. dollar will bring relief to so many nations (including Muslim...
Hajj reaches climax on plains of Arafat
Hajj pilgrims ascended the vast plains of Arafat on Thursday, about 15 km east of Makkah, at the climax of this year’s pilgrimage.
Chanting “Labbaik...
Turkey rejects calls to re-establish Caliphate
A spokesman for Turkey's ruling AKP party has said the nation will remain a secular republic after a pro-government magazine issued a call to...
EXCLUSIVE: Caliph Abdulhamid’s great-grandson on Hagia Sophia and Islamic revival
In this exclusive interview with the great-grandson of Caliph Abdülhamid II, deputy editor of 5Pillars Dilly Hussain discusses the restoration of Hagia Sophia Mosque and...
The restoration of Hagia Sophia Mosque: Symbolism, hope and Islamic revival
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, speaks with Dr Yakoob Ahmed - a Ottoman historian at Istanbul University - about the restoration of Hagia...
Hagia Sophia khutba: Today is the day of honour and humbleness
This is the full transcript of the first jumu'ah khutba in Hagia Sophia in 86 years delivered by Imam Ali Erbas, the head of Turkey’s...
350,000 attend first jumu’ah prayers at Hagia Sophia Mosque for 86 years
Around 350,000 people have attended Friday prayers in Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Mosque after a Turkish court annulled a 1934 decree that had turned the...
VIDEO: Dr Zakir Naik on Turkey’s restoration of Hagia Sophia as a mosque
The prominent Indian Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik shares his thoughts on Turkey's decision to restore Hagia Sophia back to mosque, after it was...
