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xa0 The meeting of the Secretary General of the World Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) withxa0Muridieh caliph of Senegal.Ayatollah Akhtari, Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) traveled to the city of Touba and met Sheikh Mukhtar Ambaky caliph and emphasized Iran's determination to deal with the Senegalese Sufism; caliph Mrydyh also welcomed the Iranian delegation said:" Muridieh is very close to Iran and we want greater religious and economic engagementxa0 of Sen...

Shia Muslims in Nigeria say the govement’s bloody crackdown on the religious minority is influenced by Wahhabism, a radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia. Abdul Giwa, a spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), said he believes authorities have launched a campaign of blood and destr...

Fig. 10. Handwritten book used for Rifa’iyya dhikr, Mozambique Island. Photograph by L. J. K. Bonate. All religious rituals were accompanied by collective dancing, feasting and drumming. 23,24 One of the ‘dance societies’ was the Rifa’iyya Sufi Order called in Mozambique Molidi, Mawlid, or Mawlid Na...

The meeting of Ayatollah Akhtari with Dr. Abdul Aziz kobe, head of the Hajj Bsh of Senegal in the margins of the conference "our Islamic identity and the challenges of globalization" in the hall of the Fahd hotel in Dakar. xa0...

xa0 The conference, "our Islamic identity and the challenges of globalization" was started in Dakar with the attendance ofxa0 the Iranian delegation, headed by Mr. Akhtari, the Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt (AS), Ambassador of the Islamic Cultural Center and guests from 15 countries such as Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia , England, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Canada and .......

Ayatollah Akhtari,the distinguished Secretaryxa0 General of World Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) and his delegation entered the Dakar to attend the Conference on "our Muslim identity and the challenges of globalization"xa0.xa0 ...

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xa0 The Secretary General of Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly, Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, and his delegation met Sheikh Abdul Aziz ci, the leader of Tijaniyyahxa0 sect of Senegal....

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Some 80,000 copies of the Holy Quran were distributed among Muslim institutions in Tanzania. ...

According to Ahlul Bayt, a number of Shia young people and lovers of Ahl Bayt (PBUH) in "Cape Town" climbed to the height of the "Table Mountain" in the southwest of the country "South Africa". ...

Liazzat Bonate* University of Cape Town Abstract This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre-Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and to a certain extent, Niassa provinces....

Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea Ismael Mukhtar xa0Note: this paper is based on a lecture delivered by the author in the Eritrean Muslim Council’s 6th annual convention held in Washington D.C. in July 2008. ...

The first conference as Imam Sajjad (A.S) leadership was held with the attandance of scientific and cultural personalities and different groups in Al-Zahra mosque in the city Majvnga - Madagascar on Friday and Sunday, 12th and 14th of Muharram. xa0 xa0 xa0...

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Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Joual The status of the Muslim community in Uganda Suleiman I. Kiggundu a & Isa K.K. Lukwagob xa0The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council Sectarianism had riddled the Muslim community in Uganda since the death of Mbogo in 1921. The crisis over leadership which gripped the community in the twenties had its roots in the disquiet created by Apolo Kaggwa, the long serving Katikkiro (Prime Minister) of Buganda, who feared Muslims...

Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Joual The status of the Muslim community in Uganda Suleiman I. Kiggundu a & Isa K.K. Lukwago b xa0 Muslims Efforts at Uplift Despite the respect accorded to Mbogo, Muslims leaders were generally kept "under surveillance and out of the mainstream of power." Economically, Muslims were reduced to the role of butchers, taxi-and-lorry drivers and small dukawallas....