WASHINGTON (RNS) "Please stop calling them the 'Islamic State,' because they are not a state and they are not religious," said Ahmed Bedier, a Muslim and the president of United Voices of America.

An Islamic scholar in the eyes of Nigerian media is a man of many colours. This is because the media has not got semantic filters to separate criminals from clerics. It is more newsworthy if the man ...

Enter the Oxford academic Fitzroy Morrissey. His new book, The Renewal of Islam: Thinkers and Believers of the Modern Era, is an accessible history of modern Islamic thought, and antidote to the ...

The green-fronted Kuwait Finance House Auto mall on Bahrain’s main showroom highway is a bank that sells cars. Here, the motorist can pick the model that takes his fancy and, at the same time, fix up ...

Dhaka, Jun 18 (efe_epa).Dhaka, Jun 18 (efe_epa). — Bangladeshi scholars in Dhaka on Saturday launched a new booklet compiling a set of fatwas a ruling of Islamic law that declare terrorism to be ...

In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...