An important festival for followers of Islam is coming up, one commemorating sacrifice and representing a time of prayer and gathering with family and friends. The second major festival in Islam, Eid ...

Ken Chitwood is a senior research fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and journalist-fellow at the Dornsife Center for Religion and Civic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eid literally means a “festival” or “feast” in Arabic. It is celebrated twice a year as Eid al-Adha, (pronounced eed al-Ahd-huh) ...

The Islamic Arts Festival kicked off at the University of Houston Saturday, bringing a dizzying array of textiles, calligraphy and geometric art to the campus. The festival, located at UH’s Student ...

At sundown on July 30, Muslims all over the world celebrated one of the principal festivals, Eid al-Adha. Earlier in May, Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr. Ken Chitwood, a scholar of global Islam, ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Muslim community in northeast Tennessee came together on Sunday evening to celebrate the end of Ramadan at the Eid al-Fitr banquet. Eid al-Fitr is one of the two major ...

Muslim women at a prayer service at a mosque in Redmond, Washington, to mark the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid-al-Fitr in 2016. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Ken Chitwood, Concordia College New York ...

Eid al-Fitr, the first of the two main Islamic festivals, marks the end of the month of Ramadan. Worcester Islamic Center is a Sunni mosque, representing the larger of two main movements within Islam.

MUMBAI: The Muslim festival of Shab E' Baraat or the Night of Forgiveness will be celebrated tonight on the intervening night ...