On Thursday, more than 2 million Shi’a devotees will gather at the holy city of Karbala to celebrate the birth anniversary of the Twelfth Shi’a Imam, Imam al-Mahdi. This celebration marks the ...

BEIRUT—Beirut is preparing to host the largest scout gathering in Lebanon’s history, marking the fortieth anniversary of the ...

In the largest scout gathering in the world, the total number of participants in the “Generations of Sayed” gathering reached ...

It provides a focused overview of Imam al-Mahdi (AS), the twelfth and last Imam of Shia Muslims also known as the Imam of the Age, who went into occultation after succeeding his father as leader at ...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed Al-Mahdi Scouts on Sunday, saying they are the bright future, and stressing that the resistance is a moral and cultural choice.

T he second week of August, I was in Tehran and Qom for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s fourth annual “International Conference of Mahdism Doctrine,” sponsored by the Bright Future Institute. This ...

Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...

Imam Ali al-Hadi Mosque after the bombing (epa) Sectarian tensions in Iraq took a turn for the worse on 22 February when armed men detonated explosives inside the Golden Mosque in Samarra, home to a ...

Al-Mahdi had been a controversial figure, politically and ideologically, since he took over the leadership from his father, Al-Seddiq Al-Mahdi, in 1961 until his death Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi wrote a ...