This performative documentary restores the historical record of the ‘great king’ of Mali

On Friday, the kingdom announced a renewed lockdown in the city of Jeddah, gateway to the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, to counter the jump in cases

Mosque access fight has opened up the debate about gender for South African Muslims

Pilgrims in Mecca denounce atrocities by Isis as ‘a virus’ threatening the world, but also express concerns about the US-led air war against them.

A great many local Muslims will not be allowed to perform a Mecca pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as South Africa will likely exceed its attendance quota.

Muslim pilgrims who undertake the prescribed fifth pillar of Islam are faced with a contemporary experience that has long abandoned the camel.

Standing behind a wall of pearls and rosaries in a shop in Mecca, souvenir dealer Mohammad Hamdi says business has never been so bad.

Thousands of Muslims circled the holy Kaaba stone on Tuesday before bidding farewell to Mecca while others stoned pillars representing Satan in nearby Mina as the hajj pilgrimage…

Was it God’s will or human error that killed 439 in two separate incidents during this year’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca? That’s the question which many pilgrims were pondering…

Survivors of the collapse of a hostel in the holy city of Mecca recounted on Friday the horror of the latest tragedy to strike the hajj as the death toll rose to 76. ”I heard one…

Twenty-three Muslim pilgrims were killed and scores more wounded in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Thursday when a building collapsed in the latest tragedy to hit the annual…

Dressed in a seamless white robe, Algerian pilgrim Tayyeb Bouguettaya circled the Kaaba several times on Monday with a prayer booklet in one hand and a cellphone in the other,…

Five Saudi security agents were killed in a shoot-out with suspected terrorists in the Saudi capital as nearly two-million Muslims from around the world began the annual hajj…