The erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry started long before Coldplay got involved. Omid Safi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Duke University, ...

Some of this poetry was written by caliphs themselves—the Caliph al-Walid ibn Yazid (d. 744), for instance, composed some of the finest (and most scandalous) bacchic verse in the entire canon: ...

The nation's first purpose-built mosque opened in Cedar Rapids in the 1930s, and its history is still instructive, writes ...

If awards are any measure of excellence, Doyali Islam is a very good poet! She is nominated for a slew of them this year, and has just won the League of Canadian Poets' National Broadsheet Contest.

Poetry – the lyrical, romantic kind, the type that extols the mystical life and that speaks to universal human concerns – remains very important within Arab-Islamic culture.

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

A good fit equals good Muslim, a bad fit equals bad Muslim." Chapter 11 shares the title of the book, and here we learn of an event that would go on to make Hassan realise his Muslimness was ...

The family of a Muslim woman in Middlesbrough who was well known for her Islamic poetry books have paid tribute to her after she sadly died last week. Safia Razzaq, 79, passed away on Sunday, June ...

In Germany, many expatriates welcomed signs the Islamic regime is weakening but doubted Israel’s motives and feared for ...