May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil rights leader Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm Little. Malcolm X was a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, or NOI, and helped to lead the organization ...

Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm. He is the author of "The Revenge of Geography" and "Monsoon." Updated October 5, 2012, 2:46 PM Islam is ...

Dr. Gershon Lewental can trace the rise of radical Islam through history. Radical is deemed as such because the violence Westerners associate with extremist Islam today is a change to the very root of ...

On Sept. 9, I was giving an introductory lecture to my Religion 203 weekend seminar at Iona College. I began as usual with some definitions of some commonly heard terms used in the study of religion.

This past week, I was invited to speak about the future of religion on a panel of speakers from different faith perspectives in a freshman-level class at Boise State University whose objective is to ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rafia Zakaria A HISTORY OF ISLAM IN 21 WOMEN By Hossein Kamaly Thomas Roe, Britain’s envoy in ...

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 ...

(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 ...

An image uploaded to an Islamic website allegedly showing Shakir Wahib, left, and Abu Wahib, a leader of the Islamic State standing next to burning cars at an undisclosed location in Iraq in January ...