As the world becomes increasingly cognizant to the threat of religious extremism, the west is becoming less willing to accommodate religious commitment. In 1989, Indian-born philosopher Akeel Bilgrami ...

Islam is on the rise in Southeast Asia, says Greg Fealy, currently a Visiting Professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. But rather than assume this means ...

Under the Wahhabi interpretation—an austere, literalist sect of Islam associated with the 18th century preacher Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Saudi royal family—crimes such as blasphemy and ...

No God but God Reza Aslan William Heinemann, pounds-17.99 WITH nearly one in four people claiming allegiance to the fastestgrowing religion in the world, a knowledge of Islam is not a luxury. Is this ...

The following is the first in a series of columns addressing the faith of Islam. Future installments will address specifically the issues of "jihad" and women in Islam. This is what President Bush, ...

The interesting article by Dr Joseph Fava on "Understanding Islam" (The Sunday Times, March 12) opens one's eyes to the political and social situation surrounding the birth of Islam in contrast to ...

We, the signatories of this letter, constitute a significant constituency of academic researchers who have worked on the region over the last few decades and published some of the leading scholarship ...

With 1.2 billion followers, Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion—but also its most misunderstood. Karen Armstrong, a scholar and former nun, tries to correct some of the stereotypes in her ...

During Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings, conservatives accused Kagan of being sympathetic to imposition of strict, Taliban-style Islamic law in the United States because an Islamic-finance study ...

Dr. John B. Taylor, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Islamic finance over the last several years has expanded throughout the world, not just in the Middle East, but in Asia, Europe, and the ...