Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After its return to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are again imposing their religious ideology, with restrictions on women’s ...

(RNS) — Mustafa Akyol knows the problems with apostasy laws better than most. In 2017 the Turkish thinker was supposed to be a guest lecturer in Malaysia. Yet, when he finished his trip, he was ...

True, the prophet of Islam must have said so many things during his twenty-three-year-long mission; but he insisted, "nothing from me should be written besides the Qur'an". Muslim tradition holds that ...

For most British citizens, life has returned to a wary normality after the London bomb outrage of 7 July and its abortive repeat two weeks later. But the aftermath of the most devastating man-made ...

Enter the Oxford academic Fitzroy Morrissey. His new book, The Renewal of Islam: Thinkers and Believers of the Modern Era, is an accessible history of modern Islamic thought, and antidote to the ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- When Saudi democracy activists circulated a petition recently calling for an elected national assembly, an independent judiciary and a crackdown on corruption, they received ...

We are engaged in a struggle to defeat terrorism. I have no advice on how to win that struggle, but I have some thoughts as to why it exists. It is not, I think, because Islam is at war with the West ...

I was deeply disappointed to read Yvonne Haddad’s views (“Religion and Culture: Views of 10 Scholars,” The Chronicle Review, October 22), and I find it difficult to believe that she works at a center ...

(The Conversation) — After its return to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are again imposing their religious ideology, with restrictions on women’s rights and other repressive measures. They are ...