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One muslim group though, the sufis, claim to try to replicate muhammads mystical experience of god through intense prayer, the chanting of gods name and singing verses from the quran. Emre yildirim when Prophet Muhammad was saying his prayers, while he was mediating and communicating with god he used to hear the divine instructions and then act, thats why in sufism and in islam, we also try and come close to god. Through our rituals we try to be one with him. Prophet muhammad is an example of this. Whatever he did during his prayers or during his daily life is there for us to take example. Rag...

Poetry is politics in the Yemen. When the last Imam of Yemen, who was also the hereditary ruler, was deposed in a coup in 1962, it was a local poet who announced the change of regime on the radio, in verse of course. And the current al-Houthi regime in the north of the country, like

In 2014, with the Middle East convulsed by the murderous, self-styled Islamic State, a Daily Mail reader wrote a letter to the editor which began: ‘Are you confused by what is going on in the Middle East? Let me explain…’ Aubrey Bailey went on to describe the dizzying complexity of diplomatic relationships thrown into turmoil:

Early in Barnaby Rogerson’s book about the “making of the Middle East”, he tells us a story from his youth. Travelling through the desert, he gets off a bus in an oasis town late at night, drawn to “the bright lights, chants and energy of a midnight building project”. Two teams of men are working together, albeit with some good-natured competition, to build a mosque in the cool of the night. One of the participants tells him – “with pride, with love” – that the construction has been paid for ent

Barnaby Rogerson’s The House Divided explains, in lucid if slightly hasty terms, the reasons for Islam’s schisms and why they matter today