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Mumbai A product of Cairo’s Al Azhar University, son of an Islamic scholar from Karnataka, and a follower of the Sunni Barelvi school of Islam which is followed by the majority of Indian Muslims, ...

Stephen Crittenden: Welcome to the program. The word 'fatwa' is important for our first story this week; although to Western ears, 'fatwa' has negative connotations of death threats and murderous ...

A top Indian Muslim cleric has played a key role in the postponement of the execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen's capital, Sana'a. Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad, the Grand Mufti of India, reached ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday sought to walk back his controversial claim made earlier this month that the idea to eradicate Europe’s Jews had not come from Adolf Hitler, but rather ...