The Georgetown University department of Arabic and Islamic studies will inaugurate an Islamic studies minor beginning in the Fall 2025 semester, members of the department confirmed to The Hoya Feb. 13 ...

Associate Professor Aun Hasan Ali’s book about Islam’s School of Hillah explores the dynamics and formation of Twelver Shi’ism, arguing that the faith was open to diverse intellectual traditions ...

Alcohol can be found in every culture, civilization and country. That’s why the subject — and substance — fascinates University of Delaware history professor Rudi Matthee, author of Angels Tapping at ...

Empires rarely describe themselves as empires. Muslims don’t see their faith this way either. The reason is that Muslim see themselves as not inheriting their imperial past as “empire,” but as a ...

(RNS) — The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient, and instead highlights stories of prominent rulers who influenced Islamic civilization. (RNS) — In “Queens ...

Osama bin Laden, the world’s most notorious terrorist, has handed Muslims everywhere their worst public-relations nightmare: September 11 as a picture, an embodiment, of Islam. Muslims now have to ...

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Islam is perhaps the most widely stereotyped of all world religions. Western media have often portrayed Muslims as violent extremists, male chauvinists and radically religious people. Its believers ...