Shiite women prepare to march in the inaugural Ashoura procession in a neighborhood of Arusha, Tanzania, in 2017. Mara Leichtman , CC BY Following the death of the prophet in A.D. 632, a dispute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-one years ago, Imam Husham Al-Husainy led a group of worshippers from his Dearborn mosque in a procession to a park about ...

Shiite Muslims across the Middle East and Asia are marking the "Arbaeen" — the end of the annual mourning period for the death of Imam Hussein, the revered Shiite saint. Millions of Shiites are making ...

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. The rift between Islam’s two main sects deepened after ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

KARBALA, Iraq — Millions of Shiite Muslims packed the streets of the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday on their annual pilgrim to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, who became a ...

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Twenty-one years ago, Imam Husham Al-Husainy led a group of worshippers from his Dearborn mosque in a procession to a park about two miles away to mark Arbaeen, a holiday that recalls the death of a ...