Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this. There's a quiet ...
Following last week's online release of an audio message from the caliph of the Islamic State, one expert says the group's understanding of Islam calls on all Muslims to re-evaluate Islamic history.
An interview with Father Mario Alexis Portella, author of a book that examines what Muslims believe and how Islam is portrayed in the West. ABOVE: Benozzo Gozzoli, “Saint Francis Before the Sultan,” ...
The start of the holy month of Ramadan is the perfect prompt for our next faith feature. This month we are featuring the Islamic faith, of which many Bermudians identify. Islam is a monotheistic, ...
Last year, John Kelsay went to Oman to talk about war. The first night there, speaking at the Grand Mosque in Muscat, he faced a large audience of students studying religion. Discussing the attacks of ...
In 1986, two separate government decisions were made involving the word “Allah,” the Arabic word for God. The decisions were inconsistent with each other but that is not the problem. The fact that ...
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 ...
The flashlight in my hand was pointed at the damp branches ahead of me as I watched them sway to the cool whims of Brother Wind. “This is stupid,” I thought to myself. An instructor had woken me up ...