THE SYRIAN refugees who recently arrived on Greece’s shores punctured their dinghies to ensure there was no way back. They were following a tradition dating to Islam’s first foray into Europe. In 711, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rafia Zakaria A HISTORY OF ISLAM IN 21 WOMEN By Hossein Kamaly Thomas Roe, Britain’s envoy in ...

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 ...

Tours through Harlem and Wall Street, along with a new exhibition in Brooklyn, tell all-but-forgotten stories. By Adeel Hassan On a muggy Sunday morning in June, I joined a few dozen people at the ...

Karachi-born conceptual artist Rasheed Araeen’s Islam and Modernism encourages Muslim artists and scholars to learn from the Islamic history of ideas pertaining to modernity in lieu of a Eurocentric ...

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