ON May 22, 2003, 10 days after a series of suicide bombings in Riyadh, a leading Saudi newspaper published an article entitled 'The individual and the homeland are more valuable than Ibn Taymiyya.' ...

Al Qaeda began to kill Muslims on the basis of a fatwa given by Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) saying Muslims can kill Muslims under certain conditions. The fatwa was issued at Mardin, in ...

The killing of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State has been explained as an act of retaliation for the air campaign against it. But there have been many questions about whether ...

Driven by radical beliefs, twin brothers allegedly killed their mother in Saudi Arabia after she tried to stop them from joining Islamic State in Syria in a case that outraged Saudi Arabians worried ...

Last month, a group of prominent Muslim scholars met in the Turkish city of Mardin to revisit the Mardin fatwa, the 14th-century legal edict written by Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya, who lived during ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Prominent Muslim scholars have recast a famous medieval fatwa on jihad, arguing the religious edict radical Islamists often cite to justify killing cannot be used in a globalized ...

Sir, David Gardner’s comparison of Ibn Taymiyya, the intellectual godfather of Wahhabi Islam, with Tomás de Torquemada, the famed Spanish inquisitor, may be misplaced (“A return to reason”, Life & ...

One of the twins, who according to Saudi authorities murdered their mother for trying to stop them from joining ISIS in Syria, is seen in this undated handout photo, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters Photo) ...