Vast Turkmen mosque opens
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A new mosque, thought to be the largest in central Asia, is inaugurated in the isolated republic.
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A portrait of an angry Moqtada al-Sadr greeted visitors to the Imam Ali Mosque in the holy city of Najaf. The militant Shiite cleric and hundreds of armed followers were effectively
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Turkmenistan's new president took office Wednesday with a pledge to follow the ways of longtime autocrat Saparmurat Niyazov, but also promising changes in a country ruled for decades in an all-encompassing cult of personality.
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Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende visited a Turkish mosque in the city of Eindhoven on Sunday in a show of solidarity after a wave of attacks on Muslim buildings in the Netherlands.
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NAJAF, Iraq  For centuries, the world&#39;s 120 million Shiite Muslims have revered the gold-domed mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib named after the slain cousin and son-in-law of Islam&#39;s prophet Muhammad as a place of pilgrimage.
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Turkish security teams fanned out across the Turkish capital on Tuesday before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI on his first visit to a predominantly Muslim country, where he faces public anger over his remarks on violence and Islam.
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Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan.
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More than two million Muslims stand on Mount Arafat for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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Only 28 miles separate Imam Talibâs mosque in Harlem from the Islamic Center of Long Island. Yet a vast gulf divides them.
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MANAMA, Bahrain - A big, bearded cleric caught the eye of a mosque official as he approached the stand to deliver the sermon, the chief imam at Bahrain's largest mosque recalled Thursday.  The official asked the cleric what he wanted to do.
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Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and the competing forces of the religious and secular have burst into full view.
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Israeli officials say the government has approved the building more than 300 new houses in West Bank settlements. Officials say the new building will be in the settlements of Har Gilo and Haradar close to Jerusalem.
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The UK's first stand-alone Islamic High Street bank,  aimed at the UK's 1.8 million Muslims opens in London on Wednesday.
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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 14 -- A new president of Turkmenistan was inaugurated Wednesday following a tightly scripted election and an officially tallied landslide of 90 percent of the vote, a victory that Western observers and exiled opposition leaders said was the only result permitted.
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Turkish-born Islamic leader Muhammed Metin Kaplan is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004, after a medical check up.
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Millions of Turks flocked to vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as crucial to the future direction of this large Muslim but secular democracy straddling Europe and the Middle East.