The first Muslim intellectual to have a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI since his election said the pontiff has a real thirst for understanding Islam and conducting a sincere dialogue with its ...

Before 9/11, few people in the West had any idea that there were Muslims prepared and eager to kill them or that far-flung and open-ended military campaigns in Muslim lands were imminent. This Muslim ...

Mohammad Javad Faridzadeh, Iran’s ambassador to the Holy See, is a former philosophy and history professor. After a period of study in Germany, he returned to Iran in 1997 to serve in the cabinet of ...

The Mu’tazila were early Muslim thinkers who believed that faith and reason could work together, not against each other.

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126-1198) Andalusian Muslim polymath, a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics and ...

Pope Francis may have soaked up headlines earlier this summer when he published a whopping 192-page encyclical on climate change, but this week Muslims issued a declaration that could influence an ...

Translator's Note: On November 10, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) canceled plans to hold its annual Congress for World Philosophy Day in Tehran. The ...

Today the foundations of philosophy are seen as a straight line from Western antiquity, built on thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. But, between the 8th century and 14th century, the West was ...