We embrace Black History Month as a sacred moment of remembrance and return — a time to honour heritage, resistance, and ...
Here's the truth about the hijab: it represents Independence, srength, security, value to society, and devotion to the ...
In this episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on Islamic history, we dive into the revisionist school of thought that questions foundational narratives about Islam’s origins. Central to this ...
A global understanding of Islam is impossible in absence of the Islamic art, mysticism, and poetry, writes our columnist Ahmad Sadri. ramil110 / Getty Images I can imagine no greater disservice to ...
PINJRAWAN PANCHAYAT, India — In a remote town in the Indian state of Bihar, a peculiar grave stands. This grave holds the half-burnt books that lie behind the blackened library walls of Azizia Madrasa ...
Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an African American Muslim leader and speaker, gave a talk titled “Black History in Islam” on Wednesday, Feb. 28. The event took place in the Student Union Ballroom as part of the ...
N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...
Georgetown Muslim Life collaborated with America’s Islamic Heritage Museum to display an art exhibit depicting the historical impact of Muslims in the United States. The exhibit, titled “Forgotten ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — Participants are often surprised when Asad Dandia’s Muslim Harlem tour stops at JC Barbershop in Spanish Harlem — only until he explains it was the headquarters of the country’s first ...
(RNS) — Where does the history of Muslims in America begin? With enslaved African Muslims brought to the U.S. in the 1600s? In the 1930s, when the Nation of Islam was established by Wallace Fard ...
At the minimum, here’s what Christians should know. As religious historian Rodney Stark has shown, religions compete. Early in the seventh century AD, Judaism was making inroads in Arabia, but it had ...