Saudi mufti Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh leads the prayers over three bodies of people killed yesterday in a car bomb explosion outside the general security...
Saudi men chant slogans as a cleric addresses the group in the mainly Shiite Saudi Gulf coastal town of Qatif, 400 kms east of Riyadh, on May 22...
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr looks on after a meeting with Salim al-Juburi, the Parliament's speaker, alongside other parliament Sunni members...
Workers of Pakistani Political Parties and civil society candlelight vigil during a protest against terrorism in Pakistan, putting pressure to the...
Shia Muslim holds a picture of assassinated cleric Mohammed Sadiq al Sadr December 28, 2003 in Najaf, Iraq. Sadr was killed in 1999, most likely by...
An Iranian cleric is walking through an area at the Motahari seminary during a farewell ceremony for the body of Senior conservative Iranian cleric...
An Iranian cleric is mourning while attending a farewell ceremony with the body of Senior conservative Iranian cleric and member of the Assembly of...
This photo from the U.S. Department of State's Office of International Information Programs Web site shows Sayed Abdul Majid Al-Khoei. According to...
Combo of recent file pictures shows Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing the faithful at the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at...
An Iranian cleric stands in front of the main entrance of the University of Tehran, October 24, 2023.
Iranian children listen to a clergyman as he answers their questions about religion at the International Koran exhibition at the Imam Khomeini grand...
Armed Islamist Palestinian militants protect Sheikh Jamal Khattab , a Sunni cleric who heads the Haraka Islamiyya Mujahida , during a demonstration...
Toll on Markets levied by a Cleric. From one of the painted windows of the Cathedral of Tournay. 15th century. Plate from Manners Customs and Dress...
Italy, Tuscany, Florence, San Marco Convent, corridor of the clerics. Detail. Hands of St Peter holding a book and a pen.
Priests, at Madrid, 1845. 'From gay to grave: a specimen of the Spanish clergy, who never appear in public without the capa, which, as it has no...
An Iranian cleric speaks while standing behind veiled schoolgirls at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in downtown Tehran, during a ceremony marking...
An Iranian cleric speaks while standing behind veiled schoolgirls at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in downtown Tehran, during a ceremony marking...
An Iranian cleric walks along the Imam Khomeini Grand mosque in downtown Tehran before the beginning of the second night of Qadr mass praying...
Iraq's goalkeeper Jalal Hassan presents Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr with the Arabian Gulf Cup trophy during a meeting in the central holy...
Clerics attend the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's square on January 5, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. Former Pope...
Clerics attend the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's square on January 5, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. Former Pope...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the speech following Friday prayers alongside his supporters at the Great Mosque of Kufa in the...
Kashmiri muslim man prays as the head cleric displays the holy relic beleived to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Muhammad on the occasion of...
An Iranian cleric and two veiled women walk past an Irans flag while arriving the University of Tehran to take part Friday prayers ceremonies before...
View of Gazer Gah Sharif mosque after at least 46 people were killed, including a prominent pro-Taliban religious cleric Mulawai Mujeeb-ur-Rehman...
Supporters of Iraq's Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr begin to withdraw from the fortified Green Zone after al-Sadr's call for withdrawal in Baghdad, Iraq...
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clash with security forces with heavy weapons at Green Zone after Sadr supporters stormed the Presidential...
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gather outside the Government Headquarters in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, on August 29, 2022. -...
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr start sit-in protest in front of the Supreme Judicial Council building in Baqhdad, Iraq on August 23,...
July 2022, Iraq, Baghdad: Supporters of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr try to breach the Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which...
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather in Baghdad's Tahrir square on July 27, 2022 to protest against the nomination of Mohammed...
An Iranian cleric takes part in the morning prayer ceremony for Eid al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims worldwide, at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla...
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech before ending it abruptly due to his disapproval at the behaviour of an overenthusiastic crowd,...
Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech before ending it abruptly due to his disapproval at the behaviour of an overenthusiastic crowd,...
Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends Irans Assembly of Experts biannual meeting in the old Iranian Parliament building in Tehran on March...
Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends Irans Assembly of Experts biannual meeting in the old Iranian Parliament building in Tehran on March...
Shiite clerics listen to their teacher in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Najaf as religious schools reopen after more than two years amid the...
Shiite clerics listen to their teacher in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Najaf as religious schools reopen after more than two years amid the...
Mask-clad Iranians Iranian Shiite Muslim clerics gather in a mosque in the capital Tehran to perform the Friday prayers, for the first time after...
People attend the funeral of Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Ayatollah Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim in Karbala, Iraq on September 4, 2021. Muhammad Saeed...
Mohammed Rida , son of Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, comforts Mohammad Hussein, son of Ayatollah Mohammad Said al-Hakim, one...
Sunni Muslim cleric delivers a 'Khutab' during the Friday prayers, held in a petrol station south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on September 3 amid...
Iranian women sit at a cafe in the Ekbatan neighbourhood in western Tehran on Presidential elections day, on June 18, 2021. - Iranians voted in a...
An Iranian cleric and a man walk past electoral banners for the conservative politician, head of Iran's judiciary, and Irans June 18 presidential...
An undated image shows senior Hezbollah political council member, Muhammad Kawtharani , and a chief of the Sunni Muslim Tawhid group, Sheikh Bilal...
An Iraqi cleric wearing a protective mask walks alongside another in the central holy city of Najaf, on February 26, 2020. - Najaf is where Iraq...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during the foundation ceremony for the proposed Thal Sena Bhawan, in the presence of clerics of the four major faiths...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim clerics, supporters of the Hashed Al-shaabi armed network, demonstrate in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square on December 5,...
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr drives a car as he joins anti-government demonstrators gathering in the central holy city of Najaf on October 29,...
An Emirati cleric delivers the Eid al-Adha holiday sermon at sunrise outside Dubai's main mosque and prayer grounds on August 11, 2019 as Muslims...
Muslim Shiite clerics study at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in the holy city of Qom, 130 kilometres south of Tehran on January...
An Iranian cleric , armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, at lunch with a younger man after an Iranian counter offensive at Hajomran in northern Iraqi...
An Iranian cleric prays over the coffins of the victims of twin suicide bombings targeting a Shiite mosque during a mass funeral in the southeastern...
Title page of Principle of Population written by Thomas Robert Malthus. Thomas Robert Malthus an English cleric and scholar, influential in the...
Cartoon satirising two aspects of women's lives during the 19th century. Left: A middle-class woman has tea with a cleric. Right: An elderly prisoner...
This file photo taken on December 2, 1993 of Sudan's Islamic leader, Moslem cleric Hassan al-Turabi and Sudanese President General Omar el-Bashir in...
Saudi minister of Islamic affairs Abdullatif Al-Sheikh shakes hands with an Afghan cleric during the international Ulema conference on peace and...
Iraqi vice-president Iyad Allawi visits populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose bloc won the largest share of seats in the May legislative...