Believing Muslims say we should have faith in the Quran because Allah literally spoke it to the angel Jibreel, who in turn ...

The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond. Episode 10 | 11m 39s Video has Closed Captions | CC. In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread ...

The paradox behind recent conflicts is that the communities caught in the fray — Jews, Muslims and Christians — are ...

Unlike Christianity or Judaism, Islam's religious history is inseparable from its conquests -- which is why the concept of holy war lives on today.

Author Karen Armstrong offered a brief overview of Islam. She outlined the teachings of Muhammad and the major historical events of the religion. Ms. Armstrong concluded her remarks with comments ...

A new era. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.”He downplayed previous teachings about Black ...

A Muslim pregnant woman in Texas, for example, wouldn’t be able to exercise her religion in Texas if she subscribed to the position of her medieval scholars who believed she was entitled to ...

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 ...

The first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim was John Nelson, who converted to Islam at some point in the 16th Century. A 1641 document refers to "a sect of Mahomatens" being "discovered here ...

Forough Jahanbaksh, Islam, Democracy and Religious Modernism in Iran, 1953-2000, 2001. ... Slavery in Muslim history lasted much longer than the Atlantic slave trade ...

America’s True History of Religious Tolerance The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with the historical record ...