The actions of the Islamic State are anything but Islamic, and Muslims must battle extremism to maintain the religion’s message of mercy, the grand mufti of Egypt told CNN. Sheikh Shawky Ibrahim Abdel ...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed controversial comments he made about the Holocaust, saying he never meant to claim that an Islamic leader persuaded Adolf Hitler to adopt the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia 's grand mufti who served the kingdom's top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ...

This frame grab from video shot in October 2016 by Saudi state television shows Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, whom the kingdom named as its grand mufti on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. The graphic on ...

SARAJEVO -- The former grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina is facing accusations of helping to whitewash Beijing's human rights abuses in Xinjiang against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities after he ...