This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

Knowledge of the infinitesimally small organisms in the microscopic world was divinely revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhammad, ...

Since Sept. 11, 2001, two ideas about Islam have become axiomatic: that Americans need to know more about the religion and that “moderate” Muslims in the U.S. and other Western societies need to ...

As enraged Muslims take to the streets to protest cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, few seem to be aware that representations of Islam's last messenger have existed throughout history without ...

The word of Allah did not come easily to Muhammad iln Abdallah. “Never once did I receive a revelation without thinking my soul had been torn from me,” the prophet said. Like many religious leaders, ...

(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

The principle implied by the expression ‘ladies first’ in modern times had already been established in Islam at the very ...

(RNS7-SEP06) Officials of the Slidell City Court in Louisiana have erected more than a dozen pictures of historical lawgivers, including Islam's Prophet Muhammad, alongside a portrait of Jesus. The ...