In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam. Many Muslims believe it’s their religious duty to pray five times a day in the direction of the Kaaba ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is ...

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 ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

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