Anyone who agrees should add James McDougall’s epic, authoritative and multilayered Worlds of Islam to their reading list. It covers 14 centuries of the world’s second-largest religion in just 521 ...
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 ...
In Islam, the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400–year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity. Why is a new history of Islam particularly relevant now? Much of the ...
(The Conversation) — 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 ...
We embrace Black History Month as a sacred moment of remembrance and return — a time to honour heritage, resistance, and ...
“Ojalá Supieras” reveals the hidden history of Islam in colonial Mexico through thousands of archival documents, reframing the country as not solely a Christian nation, but one forged by Muslim, ...
Osama bin Laden, the world’s most notorious terrorist, has handed Muslims everywhere their worst public-relations nightmare: September 11 as a picture, an embodiment, of Islam. Muslims now have to ...