Central to Bevilacqua’s story are two friends who began the feat of explaining Islam to Europe in the seventeenth century: Antoine Galland, the Orientalist scholar, book hunter, archeologist and ...

Bishop says collapse of Christianity is wrecking British society - and Islam is filling the void. By SEAN POULTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL and NIALL FIRTH FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 05:17 EDT, 29 May 2008 .

Most of the 230 million Muslims in Indonesia practice a form of Islam that combines the religion with local rituals, like visiting the graves of ancestors. Image. A young convert at HijrahFest.

Why more Hispanics are converting to Islam than any other ethnic group 04:36. Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher is a Colombian-American who embraced Islam 21 years ago.

What do Muslims believe? Muslims believe that Islam was revealed over 1,400 years ago in Mekkah, Arabia through a man called Muhammad. Muhammad is so respected that it is usual for Muslims to say ...

Conquest The early rise of Islam (632-700) The Muslim community spread through the Middle East through conquest, and the resulting growth of the Muslim state provided the ground in which the ...

Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World. We want to believe we’re all basically ...

The CHR, which is also the country’s gender ombudsman, was referring to the landmark Republic Act No. 11596, which finally bans marrying off any individual before he or she is 18 years old, a ...