In a conversation with Middle East expert and Israel Today correspondent Edy Cohen, Dr. Muhammad Rahouma, now a devout ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. With recent world events, Islam has come to the forefront of public religious ...

Email: [[fmsheikh]] Interests: Comparative Religious Ethics; Ethical Formation; Muslim Ethics; Discourse and Subjectivity Office: Wren 305 comparative religious ethics; Islamic ethics; subjectivity ...

Islamic Studies is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that examines the religious, historical, cultural and intellectual dimensions of Islam. This area of scholarship spans classical textual analysis, ...

Description: An Introduction to Islam, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author's extensive field work, ...

[An excerpt from Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today:] In June 2009, Barack Obama, early in his first term as President of the United States, ...

The first specialized academy of higher learning in Uzbekistan devoted exclusively to Islamic studies has been registered by the Justice Ministry in seemingly more evidence of a growing embrace of ...

David Pinault received his B.A. in French literature from Georgetown University and his M.A.and Ph.D in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of ...

Much of the world today follows the Gregorian solar calendar, which has its origins in medieval Western Christianity. Conversely, the Islamic calendar or hijrī, is a lunar calendar. There are 12 ...

When news broke on Aug. 12 that the author Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand ...

Empires rarely describe themselves as empires. Muslims don’t see their faith this way either. The reason is that Muslim see themselves as not inheriting their imperial past as “empire,” but as a ...