RIYADH (Reuters) - An imam, whose voice helped him become the first black Saudi to lead prayers at Mecca's Grand Mosque, said he was wrong to speak against a fatwa prohibiting singing, in the latest ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Two years ago, Sheik Adil Kalbani dreamed that he became an imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. Waking up, he dismissed the dream as a temptation to vanity.

ONE of the most senior Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia has been refused entry to the UK, just as he was to embark on a speaking tour of British mosques. Sheikh Adel Al-Kalbani, a former senior imam of ...

NEW YORK, April 11 Sheikh Adil Kalbani, who has been appointed as imam of Makkah`s Grand Mosque recently, is a black whose parents migrated from what is now the UAE to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s.