A slim majority of Americans (53%) know the Muslim name for God is Allah, and a similar number (52%) can correctly name the Koran as the Islamic sacred text. Overall, 41% of the public is able to ...

Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family. But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and ...

At the 2020 Grammys, DJ Khaled announced that he had just welcomed a baby boy named Alam (which means “the world”) — but he’s far from the only fan of the beautiful Arabic name with Muslim roots.

There are several iterations of the Islamic State group name — IS, ISIS, ISIL and “Daesh,” the term French President François Hollande used when referring to the group’s recent attacks on Paris. How ...

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