A Feb. 9 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a man delivering a lecture with foreboding music playing in the background. “Very few people realize it was the Catholics that started Islam.

NEW YORK — The PBS documentary “Islam: Empire of Faith” is billed as the Public Broadcasting Service’s first-ever program to address the history and culture of Islam, the religion claimed by nearly ...

“God fight them,” wrote Mohammed in the holy Koran. “What liars they are.” Mohammed meant Christians and Jews, whom he had expected to accept his new vision. When they did not respond, he took to the ...

Lincoln is home to over 10,000 Muslims, and that has led to the development of many mosques, such as the one at the Islamic Foundation of Lincoln.

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,” ...

Ramadan commemorates the month when the Quran, the holy book of Islam, was first revealed to the Prophet Mohammed ...

As a faith leader who regularly delivers the Friday sermons at our local Islamic centers, I always emphasize the message of integration, where Muslims not only positively integrate into mainstream ...

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 ...

The killing of Iran's supreme leader and ensuing Middle East instability could revive sectarian clashes and see religion emerge as a mobilizing tool.

There’s standing room only in a converted warehouse in the decaying industrial hinterland north of central Paris. It’s mid-October, just days after the first U.S. bombs fell on Afghanistan, and the ...

Long before Islam and even before Zoroastrianism, Iranian tribes followed an ancient Indo-Iranian religion ...