Eleven-year-old Sara gives us a brief guide to her religion by describing the Five Pillars of Islam, the main rules Muslims ...

This article is an attempt to highlight the basic tenets and beliefs in Islam. Sometimes, people may use religion to justify their actions, whether it is permissible within the religion or not, so it ...

An interview with Father Mario Alexis Portella, author of a book that examines what Muslims believe and how Islam is portrayed in the West. ABOVE: Benozzo Gozzoli, “Saint Francis Before the Sultan,” ...

The flashlight in my hand was pointed at the damp branches ahead of me as I watched them sway to the cool whims of Brother Wind. “This is stupid,” I thought to myself. An instructor had woken me up ...

Has Islam been the one religion acceptable to God since the days of Prophet Muhammad? Does Islam claim to replace Christianity and Judaism, the way most of Christianity claimed (until recently) to ...

While both have significantly shaped the nation’s identity, which of these religions came first? Historical evidence clearly shows that Islam was the first major religion to arrive in what is now ...

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 ...