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10th August 2012, President Obama hosted his fourth Iftar dinner as President in the State Dining Room of the White House. The Iftar is the meal that breaks the day of fasting during Ramadan, when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “The believers, in their love, mercy and compassion for each other, are like a single body; if one part of it feels pain, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever.”

The Foundation for Islamic Art, which boasts oneof the world's most important collections of Islamic Art at its 5-acre Shangra La estate in Honolulu Hawaii, is exhibiting works outside the estate for the first time.

Après Amina Wadud et Pamela Taylor, c'est au tour de Jamila Ezzani de diriger la prière à l’occasion de la célébration de l'Aid El Fitr (le 19 août) dans un centre culturel musulman à Los Angeles.

"And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women." [Quran 2:228] In Islam there is absolutely no difference between men and women as far as their relationship to Allah is concerned, as both are promised the same reward for good conduct and the same punishment for evil conduct.

I had been exposed to other religions at the time through my mum. Since we have gone through divorce that was quite traumatizing she has been forced to look for alternative spiritual means. So by the time I realized I really need to find my niche to get into.

“Le meilleur d’entre vous est celui qui se comporte de la meilleure façon avec son épouse", c’est dans la langue de Goethe et dans le métro allemand que ce célèbre hadith a délivré son ode à la femme et à l’exemplarité, brisant magnifiquement tous les préjugés à l’égard de la gent féminine, mais aussi de l’islam.

À l'origine, le mot arabe sounnah signifie Chemin, direction ou voie. Dans le contexte de l'Islam, le terme désigne les paroles et actes du prophète Mouhammad. Ce terme n'est pas le fruit du hasard puisque la voie tracée par le prophète est celle que tout musulman doit suivre, elle est la droite voie!

Nearly one-fourth of the world’s population today is Muslim. The Muslim population is a diverse community of believers spanning the globe. Over fifty countries have Muslim-majority populations, while other groups of believers are clustered in minority communities on nearly every continent.

The Muslims are the fastest growing religious community in the United States of America as after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 on World Trade Centre, the number of the Muslims in the US have soared by 67 percent.

It's a public health project of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis, which pitches in by paying rent for the clinic offices. Many of the volunteers attend the mosque.

A new social networking tool for Muslims will be launched in 2012 and Muslims worldwide – including Greek Muslims – will be able to discuss cooking skills, relationship problems, political views, economic concerns, and even meet their long-lost high school crush.

IslamToday/Agencies (02/26/2012) -- The Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF), a Southest Asian fashion event established in Malaysia in 2006, was hosted by the Philippines this year for the first time. The festival, held in Manila's Hotel InterContinental, featured the collections of eight designers, three of them from the Philippines, namely JC Buendia, Veejay Floresca and Jun Escario.

The Joint Committee for Dialogue, established in 1998, held its annual meeting in Rome on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 February 2009; it was jointly presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and by Prof. Cheikh Ali Abd al-Baqi Shahata, Secretary General of the Academy for Islamic Research of al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt.