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 the fall of 1776, as the newly independent American colonies set about drafting their individual state constitutions, a furious debate erupted over the rights of religious minorities. Preachers and ...

Lightning from a clear sky — that's how historians have described the rise of Islam. Stories say the Prophet Muhammad received his revelations from the Angel Gabriel deep in the Arabian desert, ...

At the time of Islam’s emergence, slavery was a normal feature of every major civilization. It functioned much like a system of unpaid labor. Judaism and Christianity, as historically practiced, ...

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 ...

I am making available my two-part lecture plus a slideshow with lots of images to help explain the origin and foundations of Shi’i Islam. In the past few years, as the United States gets more and more ...

On June 29, 2014—or the first of Ramadan, 1435, for those who prefer the Islamic calendar to the Gregorian—the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) publicly uttered for the first time ...