The Ghanaian Minaret

A question that has quietly lingered within many Muslim communities yet increasingly finds its way into public conversations is this: Do Muslim women receive compensation after divorce, or are they

Ghana is a secular state with a population of over 30 million, where one out of every five Ghanaians is a Muslim. The disproportion in population size means the Muslim

With the sighting of the crescent moon signalling the arrival of the Ramadan month comes the excitement that greets Muslims in Ghana. It is the season when Ghana’s diverse culinary

Kano, Nigeria : Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano have started closing down sports betting shops that they say are operating illegally. “As you know, betting is forbidden

The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice announced that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the group, has enacted the “Law for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.”. The

Accra: The Imam of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Superintendent of Police, Husein Abdur Rahim Husein, has advised Muslims who seek to renew their faith in Allah to be careful

some Ghanaian Muslims tend to suffer from misconceptions about their own faith due to lack of education about the religion.

Mufti Ismail ibn Musa Menk, the Grand Mufti of the Zimbabwean Muslim community, says people can only feel liberated from physical insecurities when they embrace how Allah has created them.

As nations marked World Environment Day on June 5 and Ghanaians mark Green Ghana Day on June 9, we look at some five Islamic teachings that promote environmental conservation

For a country like Ghana that has a constitution centred on the ethos of secularism and Muslims in the minority, it would be rare to find state apparatus enforcing religious