To help the Muslim vote have maximum impact, Imam Qazwini is working with a group of about 50 Muslim leaders (not all of them clergy) to recommend a candidate...

The story of Qazwini, who is emerging as one of the nation's top Shi'ite leaders and whose family ties extend to the heart of Islam in Iraq and Iran, is a story of the daily...

At the Islamic Center of America, in Dearborn and Detroit, a group of six or seven teenagers and young adults began meeting with Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini in 1997. The Young Muslim Association now has 700 members...

Mr. al-Qazwini said he had seen a growing disenchantment among his followers, who generally applauded the toppling of Saddam Hussein. "I can see how bitter they are...

"If there is dissatisfaction there, there will be dissatisfaction here," said Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini, a native of Karbala, Iraq, who heads Detroit's Islamic Center of America...

“The reason we don’t do that is because our neighbors are not Muslim,” Qazwini said. “Raising the call for prayer outdoors would be...