(RNS) — A new smart prayer rug is being offered as an educational tool for use by Muslims concerned they may make errors in their daily prayers. The company behind the new rug says it has exceeded its ...

In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before the sun ...

A machine to help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water? A Malaysian company has developed just that, saying there's a market of 1.7 billion believers for the ...

On a typical day, the skies in Afghanistan echo with the voice of muzzin, or the person performing the adhan, an Islamic call to prayer. “Hurry to prayer” and “Hurry to salvation” are the key messages ...

In a recent tweet, President Donald Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim ...

A female professor led an Islamic prayer service Friday with men in the congregation despite sharp criticism from Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East who complained that it violated centuries ...

FARGO - Hundreds of Muslims offered their first Eid-ul-Adha prayer at the newly constructed Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead mosque in south Fargo on Tuesday. Muslims from Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - John Walker Lindh, known as the "American Taliban," and other Muslims housed in an Indiana prison have the right to congregate for daily group prayer sessions, a federal judge ...