Afterwards he found it almost impossible to describe the experience that sent him running in anguish down the rocky hillside to his wife. It seemed to him that a devastating presence had burst into ...

(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

Under Islam, depictions of the Prophet are a seen as blasphemous as the religion forbids visual representations of both the Prophet and Allah, or God. Students were reportedly asked to colour in the ...

Despite Islam’s status as the world’s fastest-growing religion and more than a decade of intense military engagement in predominantly Islamic Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans know little about ...

Almost all parents love their own children much more than they love the children of their neighbors. This is natural. Most parents are also able to acknowledge that some of their neighbor’s children ...

French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo is to publish a special edition, as a comic book biography of the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, adapted directly from the work of classical ...

SPOKANE -- Monday was the biggest day in the writing career of Spokane author Sherry Jones, but she wasn't doing anything special to mark the day. Jones' first novel, "The Jewel of Medina," reached ...

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...