The richness of Islamic art entranced Louis and Jacques Cartier, two of the founder’s grandsons, who weaved references to it throughout jewellery and artefacts from the 1920s onwards. It is an ...

The rise of political Islam is closely linked to the birth of the modern state in Muslim societies and the exclusion of religion from the public space In 1994, Harvard University Press published the ...

In October, Malaysia’s first astronaut will join a Russian crew and blast off into space. The news of a Muslim astronaut was cause for celebration in the Islamic world, but then certain questions ...

Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world. Islamist political movements, ...

Paris: Whether fluttering over the ruins of a captured city in Iraq or Syria, or in the background of gruesome execution videos, the black flag used by the Islamic State group has become an instantly ...

This course explores contemporary Islamic thought on the legitimacy of national and international legal orders; it reviews contemporary Islamic-legal theories on the topics of legislation, ...

Islamic education plays a critical role in shaping individuals and society. In modern times, many students struggle to balance school, work, and religious learning. As a Quran tutor, I see daily ...

From the fatwa on author Salman Rushdie to the attack on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the phenomenon of anti-blasphemy actions continues to be prominent in the Muslim world. At first ...

For Muslims, the First World War changed everything. What we think of today as modern Islam - assertive, self-confident, sectarian - is the product of the worldwide tumult of the Great War. Seeing all ...

Muslim intellectuals have called for their fellow believers to indentify societal failures and develop an Islam for the 21st century. Loay Mudhoon believes that Europe should unreservedly support this ...