The Maldives is celebrating 900 Hijri years since its last Buddhist king embraced Islam and turned the archipelago into an ...

Explore the history of Islamic nations from the birth of the religion in 622 through its rise in the 7th and 8th centuries, leading to the Golden Age. The video discusses the decline following the ...

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 ...

Today’s popular Islamist movements call for the establishment of the sharia as a crucial plank in their political platform. Given the severity of some of the law’s provisions, why has this call for ...

(RNS) – 'In the narrative of American Islam, there's this complete omission of these black Muslim women who are so critical to its making,' says Sylvia Chan-Malik. (RNS) — Sylvia Chan-Malik never ...

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam. Many Muslims believe it’s their religious duty to pray five times a day in the direction of the Kaaba ...

An image uploaded to an Islamic website allegedly showing Shakir Wahib, left, and Abu Wahib, a leader of the Islamic State standing next to burning cars at an undisclosed location in Iraq in January ...

For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, available on our website or as six emails delivered every other day, written by Senior ...