This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

As enraged Muslims take to the streets to protest cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, few seem to be aware that representations of Islam's last messenger have existed throughout history without ...

Since Sept. 11, 2001, two ideas about Islam have become axiomatic: that Americans need to know more about the religion and that “moderate” Muslims in the U.S. and other Western societies need to ...

(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

Kara Flook reviews For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, by Robert D. Crews. Crews, an assistant professor of history at Stanford University, investigates relations ...

Thanks to Iran’s Islamic revolution, 9/11, large-scale immigration and much else, Americans have learned a great deal about the Islam of Muhammad and the Quran over recent decades. Terms such as ...

The principle implied by the expression ‘ladies first’ in modern times had already been established in Islam at the very ...

(RNS7-SEP06) Officials of the Slidell City Court in Louisiana have erected more than a dozen pictures of historical lawgivers, including Islam's Prophet Muhammad, alongside a portrait of Jesus. The ...