Durru Shehvar Sultan, daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph, grew up in France before marrying the eldest son of India’s ...

The video is from the Hosseini Infants Ceremony, an annual ritual held on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram.

1971 — Muhammad Ali wins a four-year legal battle to overturn his 1967 conviction for draft evasion in an 8-0 vote by the U.S. Supreme Court. 1992 — Connie Price-Smith, who earlier won the discus, ...

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Over the centuries, Kashmir has been inundated with Sufi saints. Today, you can hardly walk a hundred metres on any street ...

In March 1924, Turkey became a republic, ... Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan decided to send the deposed caliph a lifetime pension of 300 pounds and allowances to several other family members.

In 1992, Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, married former Miss Turkey Manolya Onur, who was also a member of the Ottoman dynasty, that once ruled Turkey under the Ottoman Empire.

At the Battle of Karbala, with the odds stacked against him, Hussain found an unlikely ally. Rahab Siddha Datt, a Brahmin warrior from the furthest Hindu settle ...

One of March Madness' most indelible memories is Ali Farokhmanesh getting the ball with a half-minute left and opting to let fly a wide-open 3-pointer against No. 1 seed Kansas. "Farokhmanesh, a 3 ...

He was promoted during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab and became the governor of Levant during the caliphate of Uthman, the third caliph. After Uthman's death, Muawiya refused to pledge ...

This branch of Islam takes its name from Imam Nizar ibn al-Mustansir (1045-1095), the son of a Fatimid caliph who was considered by the Nizari faithful to be a descendant of Fatima and Ali.