From Peter Brown's review of the Met's "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)," at The New...

Comment by NYU assistant professor/faculty fellow Jeremy Walton on yesterday's New York Times article, "Koran burning in NATO Error...

From Nidhal Guessoum's "New Media and Islam" at HuffPo: Similarly, the Los Angeles Times recently related the strong reactions expressed by...

From Jan-Werner Müller's article in the November/December Boston Review titled, "Making Muslim Democracies": In the case of Christian Democracy, believers...

30 December 2005 There’s something to be said for being forthright. The Opinion Journal, The Wall Street Journal’s conservative...

By Cidney Dutton Laïcité, the French term for the separation of church and state, is a relatively new concept...

Zain Shauk: We salute Jenny Jarvie of The Los Angeles Times, who dug up a story about the first...

Zain Shauk: In a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, radio host Dennis Prager posed five questions that he said...

Generally speaking, U.S. politicians’ and religio-rock stars’ explanations for God’s periodic, environmental fits of wrath are predictable: gay sex,...

A parlimentarian in Kuala Lampur today asked the government to investigate “Black Metal,” a so-called “anti-religion cult” practiced by...

By Vanessa Larson In August, U.S. News and World Report put out a “Collector’s Edition” called “Secrets of Islam:...

Zain Shauk writes: In describing a Muslim father’s concerns about his daughters’ virtue, Robert King of the Indianapolis Star writes, “the Abdur-Rahmans have not...

Zain Shauk writes: In describing a Muslim father’s concerns about his daughters’ virtue, Robert King of the Indianapolis Star...

Religious epidemiology: Pilgrims returning from Mecca may be spreading polio, according to the World Health Organization. “We’re staring at the...

Let It Boil Bob Jones U. has a glorious message for Bush, lest he be tempted to the “paganism”...

The Last Temptation of Shazia: Salon.com’s Priya Jain interviews controversial female Muslim stand-up comic, Shazia Mirza, whose act — often focusing on...

“‘If one'” — that’d be a gay person — “‘ever looks at me'” — and that would be Jimmy...

“The funniest philosopher of all time”? Scott McLemee, at The Chronicle of Higher Education, reviews The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology (Princeton University...

Last week an Islamist women’s group launched a monthly online magazine, Al-Khansaa, aimed at recruiting Arab women jihadis to fight...

Tired of Deal Hudson? Much better Catholic writing is to be found in V.Y. Mudimbe‘s story atWords Without Borders, a...

The Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf has had a dual historical role as both holy shrine and rallying point...

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has ruled that the federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps must stop financing programs that...