Following the narrative of Islam’s journey from tribal origins to world religion, scholar John Tolan offers those new to the ...

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 ...

There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but fewer assessing the relationship ...

he creation of Pakistan, the Two-Nation Theory proposes, shows that Hindus and Muslims are separate nations incapable of coexisting. This claim prompts several important inquiries: (1) What was the ...

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Like many American Muslims, Asim Khan is tired of the prejudice against his religion. The president of the New Jersey chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America welcomes the ...

(RNS) – 'In the narrative of American Islam, there's this complete omission of these black Muslim women who are so critical to its making,' says Sylvia Chan-Malik. (RNS) — Sylvia Chan-Malik never ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The medieval English allegorical poem Piers Plowman described the birth of ...

Professor Dany Doueiri stood at the front of a lecture hall dressed in jeans, with a red polo shirt peaking out of a dark sweater. “You’re living a historic moment,” Doueiri told his students in the ...