NASHVILLE, TN — Before our group studied Islam in other parts of the world, the organizers wanted us to see some of the nuances of Muslim communities in America. And where better to do that than in ...

Since Sept. 11 there has been an understandable increase in the number of books about Islam. Although Islam and Christianity are the two largest religions in the world and their relationship is now ...

Interview with scholar of American Salafism finds commonalities—and potential for engagement—between the austere Islamic interpretive movement and the Christian community most wary of them. If one ...

Idrīs appears only twice in the Quran, yet his legend exploded after Islam’s rise. Muslim scholars quickly linked him to Enoch, the biblical figure who never died. Like Enoch, Idrīs was said to ascend ...

The University of Southern California has removed a portion of Islamic scripture from the Web site of a Muslim-student group on its campus, The Daily Trojan reported today. The deleted material came ...

A prominent Muslim lawmaker in Malaysia has remained steadfast in his refusal to apologize for saying that the Christian Bible has been corrupted and its message has been distorted in comments that ...

MUFREESBORO, Tenn. - It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman co ...