(The Conversation) — May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil rights leader Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm Little. Malcolm X was a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, or NOI, and helped to lead ...

Islam in the "New World": the historical setting -- Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America -- Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and ...

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 ...

The fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalism is not a religious fanaticism, a throwback to the Middle Ages as it is portrayed in the West, but rather a state fanaticism typical of decadent capitalism ...

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 ...

Based on anecdotal evidence, Islam’s popularity has been growing in Turkmen society in the last decade. What explains this apparent rise in religiosity in Turkmenistan? Islam was introduced to the ...

Africa's rich history is inextricably linked to the Islam religion, which has been a dominant religious influence on the continent since the seventh century. Islam is substantial and influential in ...