Bangladesh did not become Muslim through peaceful trade alone. Waves of conquerors, Sufi networks, land grants, mass migration, and Mughal-era agricultural expansion reshaped Bengal’s identity from ...

Once a highly influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, the urban center is now home to just several hundred Jews, ...

Between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Islamic world absorbed and interpreted lessons from classical Greece and Rome, leading to advances in science, medicine and philosophy — and finding expression ...

When it comes to interfaith dialogue, Muhammed Abu Layla’s memory can seem disconcertingly long. “Even during the crusades, we had good relations with you,” Mr. Abu Layla says, with an expansive ...

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity; By Michael A. Cook; Princeton University Press; 960 pp., $39.95 “The text,” Ted replies. “OK, that’s right. But they never ...

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 ...

Islamic radicals hijacked airplanes to attack and undermine the West. They killed thousands of innocents without a single moral qualm. But their enmity is not just directed against us. They also mean ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled by Saturday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — ...