2004-06-05T14:56:41-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/BookTV_default-image.jpgIn a discussion entitled, "Understanding Islam: How Books Can Foster Dialogue in a ...

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — More than 40 Soldiers deployed to Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring, Kuwait participated in cultural awareness training on Nov. 17, 2021. The religious affairs specialists and ...

A COUPLE days after the Paris attacks, I found myself in Connecticut praying in a mosque with fresh bullet holes. This mosque is just like one in Lynnwood, it hosts blood drives in honor of the 9/11 ...

Under the Wahhabi interpretation—an austere, literalist sect of Islam associated with the 18th century preacher Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Saudi royal family—crimes such as blasphemy and ...

MIAMI BEACH — One wouldn’t call them bedfellows, strange or otherwise, but President Obama and Donald Trump are both inadvertently helping the Islamic State through rhetoric that is either too ...

The following is the first in a series of columns addressing the faith of Islam. Future installments will address specifically the issues of "jihad" and women in Islam. This is what President Bush, ...

With 1.2 billion followers, Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion—but also its most misunderstood. Karen Armstrong, a scholar and former nun, tries to correct some of the stereotypes in her ...

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.

After Sept. 11, 2001, the need to understand Islam has never been greater. A chorus of voices — from Islamic fundamentalists to secular modernists — claim to speak for the religion’s 1 billion ...