During a recent episode of HBO's “Real Time,” host Bill Maher mocked President Obama’s insistence that the Islamic State does not represent Islam, and lambasted Islam as “the only religion that acts ...

Left to right: Sheldon Lee Glashow, USA, Abdus Salam, Pakistan, and Steven Weinberg, USA, before receiving the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics in Stockholm Update October 4, 2023: The Nobel Prize in ...

The president has weighed in, describing ISIS as a perversion of Islam. Graeme Wood's massively researched cover story for The Atlantic argues that, by the lights of the group's own adherents, yes, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A small group of self-proclaimed secular Muslims from North America and elsewhere gathered in St. Petersburg recently for what they billed as a new ...

Every time the Islamic State commits yet another attack or atrocity, Muslims, particularly Western Muslims, shudder. Attacks like the ones in Paris mean another round of demands that Muslims condemn ...

Riba, an Arabic word meaning “to increase” or “to exceed,” refers to unequal transactions and interest charges for borrowing ...

A Banser instructor announces an afternoon schedule during a rigorous three day induction course for Nahdatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, on July 23, 2017 in Kebumen, Indonesia.

It's a Saturday evening during Ramadan and chicken curry, naan and rice are on the menu at the Maryam Islamic Center in Sugar Land. Hundreds of people have gathered in the Houston suburb to break ...

Anyone learning about Islam from the headlines alone might think it was a faith powered by violence, inflexible laws, and sexism. In Nigeria, the extremists of Boko Haram kidnap schoolgirls to use as ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion, Zahra Ayubi started to notice a theme among some critics of the historic shift. "They'll draw analogies between ...

Islam, like many other religions, values exegesis. Historically, Muslims were expected to be learned in Arabic, the Qur’an, hadith, and jurisprudence to be taken seriously. But American presidents, ...