Does religion shape society less or more than society shapes it? Less, according to this solidly researched study of the comparative status of Muslim women in northern Nigeria and Senegal.

A city mosque will kick off a five-day exhibition on the connection between Islam and Black history in the United States with ...

Al Qaeda-linked Islamists declared on Thursday they had secured full control of Mali’s desert north from separatist rebels with whom they had temporarily joined forces to seize territory earlier this ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man linked to al Qaeda tried to set off an explosive device aboard a U.S. passenger plane as it approached Detroit on Friday, but was overpowered by passengers and crew, ...

Reviewed by H. F. C. Smith, "Islam in West Africa," Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria) no. 15, March 1963, pages 31-33 https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

"Palestine" may not be a state, but, Islam is already an “empire” from Milan to Barcelona, and would like to open the prisons ...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced yesterday that it rolled up an Islamic State (IS) financial network that spanned three unspecified West African countries. According to Iraqi ...

Egodi Uchendu receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She has also received funding from TETFund, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in ...

Five regional scholars offer their recommendations for Christians. The world’s second-largest religion, Islam has long exercised the minds of Christians. Dating to A.D. 610, when Muhammad is said to ...

In many parts of the world, sex therapy and sexual surrogacy are recognized as legitimate aspects of physical and mental ...

What’s the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted ...