NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates examines Muhammad: The Last Prophet, a new animated film depicting the life of the prophet Muhammad. She speaks with Mark Pinsky, who writes about religion in popular culture ...

What inspired you to write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

According to both the Bible and the Qur’an, since the days of Adam and Eve certain select humans in the distant past have heard the One God speaking to them. These people are usually called Prophets ...

Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey ...

Historians have studied great personalities such as Moses, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and many more, but there is one leader still largely unknown to the West ...

Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born around 570, AD in Mecca. His father died before he was born and he was raised first by his grandfather and then his uncle. He belonged to a poor but respectable ...

Every year, Muslims around the world celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (S), the Messenger of God sent to confirm the essential teachings of monotheism. Born on the 17th day of the Islamic ...