One of the sacred relics gifted to Veysel Karani by the Prophet Muhammad, the Hırka-i Şerif – the cloak that was worn by the ...

People look at and offer prayers beside what is believed to be the sacred cloak of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed in a mosque on June 2 in Istanbul (AFP photo) ISTANBUL — A long queue of men and women ...

This Washington Post story by Kevin Sieff opens a window for Americans into the tensions within Afghanistan, along with the power of a relic: Here's the way the story begins: For 250 years, Masood ...

A long queue of men and women standing in separate lines extends from an Istanbul mosque to see a centuries-old garment pressed down flat inside an glass exhibition ...

A long queue of men and women standing in separate lines extends from an Istanbul mosque to see a centuries-old garment pressed down flat inside an glass exhibition ...

At the center of the war-torn city of Kandahar, Afghanistan is a shrine said to hold a cloak once worn by the Prophet Mohammed himself. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the symbolic power of Afghanistan ...