The Cross and the Crescent Christianity and Islam From Muhammad to the Reformation Richard Fletcher Viking: 184 pp., $22.95 * Islam Without Fear Egypt and the New Islamists Raymond William Baker ...

President Obama defended the “true peaceful nature of Islam” on Wednesday — saying terrorist groups like ISIS promote a “twisted interpretation of religion that is rejected by the… ...

What the Islamic State shows us about human nature and torture. ... An image made from a video released by Islamic State militants in 2014 that purports to show the killing of journalist James Foley.

The Muslim artist does not attempt to replicate nature as it is, but tries to convey what it represents. This lets the artist, and those who experience the art, get closer to Allah.

A planned overhaul of Syria’s education curriculum is spurring concerns about the new government’s assurances that it will rebuild an inclusive society, and leading some to question whether it ...

Nature - Muslim nations must take a big leap forward in developing science and technology to catch up with the rest of the world, argues Herwig Schopper, ...

Growing up south of Newark, New Jersey, Ismail explains in the book, he didn’t fully understand what it took to become a man. Young boys, he said, are expected to somehow figure it out on their own.

The Nature of Money Islamic Banking and Conscious Capitalism Harris Irfan May 15, 2015. An Afghan money changer holds a bundle of Afghani money at an open market in Kabul February 16, 2009. Ahmad ...

A Malaysian man on Thursday won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex “against the order of nature,” raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in the mostly Muslim ...

A Malaysian man on Thursday won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex “against the order of nature,” raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in the mostly Muslim ...