May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil rights leader Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm Little. Malcolm X was a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, or NOI, and helped to lead the organization ...

A global understanding of Islam is impossible in absence of the Islamic art, mysticism, and poetry, writes our columnist Ahmad Sadri. ramil110 / Getty Images I can imagine no greater disservice to ...

(RNS) — Muslim Americans are gearing up for what overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision could mean for their communities. (RNS) — To Eman Abdelhadi, getting an abortion was the most sensible ...

On the border of East Harlem and the Upper East Side, the copper dome of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York glows green against the skyline. It’s where Asad Dandia begins one of his walking tours ...

At the minimum, here’s what Christians should know. As religious historian Rodney Stark has shown, religions compete. Early in the seventh century AD, Judaism was making inroads in Arabia, but it had ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Participants are often surprised when Asad Dandia’s Muslim Harlem tour stops at JC Barbershop in Spanish Harlem — only until he explains it was the headquarters of the country’s first ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced ...

Left to right: Sheldon Lee Glashow, USA, Abdus Salam, Pakistan, and Steven Weinberg, USA, before receiving the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics in Stockholm Update October 4, 2023: The Nobel Prize in ...