In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

Michael Muhammad Knight's Muhammad: Forty Introductions asks two questions at the same time — or asks the same two questions 40 times. One is explicit: How should we think about the prophet Muhammad?

It was a fitting end to this country’s most famous Muslim life: Family and friends gathered around the bed of Muhammad Ali, the boxer whose conversion to Islam decades ago sent countless seekers and ...

Muhammad Ali was one of the best-known men of the 20th century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans throughout the world with his mesmerizing combination of speed, ...

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim movement, concluded the tutorial of his designated successor, Elijah Muhammad, in 1934. That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam’s ...

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