U.S. President Barack Obama also praised Ali on Thursday in a Facebook live broadcast from the White House, showing off a copy of the book, "GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali," and a signed pair of ...
A year-and-a-half after the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Delaware Board of Funeral Services discriminated against Muslim burial practices, the ...
Some 15,000 people are expected at the jenazah, the Arabic word for funeral, set for noon (1600 GMT) at Freedom Hall in Ali's home town of Louisville, Kentucky, the venue where Ali defeated Willi ...
Hundreds of mourners on Monday thronged Zaria, Kaduna State, for the funeral of a renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Khalifa Usman Idris, popularly known as Rigi-Rigi.Sheikh Rigi-Rigi died on February 1 ...
The casket with the body of Muhammad Ali arrives for an Islamic prayer service at the Kentucky Exposition Center on June 9, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky. *Thousands of mourners gathered Thursday to ...