Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malcolm X helped lead the Nation of Islam until 1964. Truman Moore/Getty Images May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil ...

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam. Many Muslims believe it’s their religious duty to pray five times a day in the direction of the Kaaba ...

Islam in the "New World": the historical setting -- Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America -- Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and ...

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 ...

In Islam, the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400–year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity. Why is a new history of Islam particularly relevant now? Much of the ...

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity; By Michael A. Cook; Princeton University Press; 960 pp., $39.95 “The text,” Ted replies. “OK, that’s right. But they never ...

This past week, I was invited to speak about the future of religion on a panel of speakers from different faith perspectives in a freshman-level class at Boise State University whose objective is to ...