Divorce in the Islamic community is a complex subject, battling misperceptions and entrenched stereotypes.
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The Vatican has announced a training course to meet growing demand for exorcists.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab-Islamic education is neither a limited nor recent phenomena. While poorly understood, it remains a fundamental part of the educational development of the region.
The emergence of the Islamic movement in the Indonesian underground music scene has drawn a lot of people’s attention. What factors are driving the underground youths, especially punks, to religion?
Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s novel The Lebs is a realistic portrayal of teenage boys in Western Sydney.
Whenever Salah scores a goal, he performs sujood, the Islamic act of prostration. Fans’ reactions to it underscore the state of British Muslimness today.
The principle argument as to why women should remove the niqab in court seems compelling, but it is based on flawed assumptions.
The beguiling works on display in an exhibition by Muslim Australian artists are grounded in the realities of their daily lives.
Mennel Ibtissem, a 22-year-old student from Besancon, France, wowed judges, the audience and viewers on The Voice France, but withdrew from the show when she was accused of Islamic extremism.
A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it. Here two of them tell their stories.
Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
Before Trump said he wanted to create a Muslim registry, there were a number of Islamophobic policies in place.
A year after the Quebec mosque shooting, it’s clear that little has changed for Muslims in Canada. They’re still almost unequivocally rejected.
The current aggressive version of Islamophobia in Québec is unique to the province. We need a critical re-interpretation of our own history to build a Québec freed from our old racist patterns.
The Baha'i faith originated in Iran and today has 100,000 communities across the globe, including the United States. Here is their history.
Passionate musicians in Western India are committed to “break down the walls” of hate built by opportunistic politics between religious communities.
As Americans make decisions about year-end giving, how much of it will be influenced by their faith?
Contemporary terrorism is rooted in a form of political violence dating from the French Revolution. It is rooted in social facts and is now evolving on a global scale.
There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
Forget the idea that it was round one in the battle between Christianity and Islam.
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