(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

The book has been translated into English by a number of Islamic science scholars working for Islamplus, an English website initiated by Aemat ol-Hoda, an Iranian international publisher, to spread ...

Thank you for your reply of my question. I really appreciate that of you. Jazaka Allah. I have another question here about a Hadith in MUWATTA'A MALIK book. My question: Is it Haram or not Haram for a ...

The recent decapitation of a French schoolteacher in a Parisian suburb over showing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad to his class is the latest in a series of violent attacks in recent years over ...

Dozens of Pakistani lawmakers rumbled through the streets of Islamabad on Thursday with one voice: Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. The “blasphemers” in ...

This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

"Why do Muslims reject the depiction of Prophet Muhammad?" – the Western world has been asking that question since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten first published Prophet Muhammad caricatures in ...

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