Flames burst from the stage for a grand entrance, and fake fog swirls around a young man in a white robe. He clutches the microphone, gazes seriously into the camera and then, accompanied only by ...

At a time of political rhetoric over Islam in America, a multi-cultural group of European musicians has been touring the U.S. playing sacred Islamic songs. The tour ends Thursday in Stockton with a ...

“Awakening” is a self-styled Islamic media company founded in London 20 years ago. It has produced some of the most popular contemporary pop music in the Muslim world; much like Christian rock, this ...

Anne Rasmussen’s connections in Indonesia have helped build the evolution of her research there, and over the years, the way she does it as well. Rasmussen, William & Mary professor of music and ...

The Museum of Islamic Art Library opens its rare book collection this week, revealing centuries of wisdom about medicine, ...

This paper describes the contemporary context of Zikir Maulud, a popular, religiously-inspired musical practice that has a long history in Sambas, a regency in West Kalimantan. The formation of a ...

The 11th Annual Islamic Arts Festival, the largest and oldest of its kind in the United States, will be held Nov. 9-10 at the University of Houston, bringing together artists and visitors from across ...

Presented in cooperation with Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites, musicians Jamuna Murali, Raja Rajeshwari Bhat, and Ali Durrani will showcase and detail the nuances and intricacies of two traditions of ...

Two decades ago, when the Taliban was first ousted from Afghanistan, Ahmad Sarmast departed from home in Melbourne, Australia, and set out to revive music, which the Taliban had banned, in his country ...

Benjamin Isakhan receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Defence. Ali Akbar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

Rihanna has apologized to the Muslim community after an uproar over an appearance on an Amazon Prime-streamed lingerie show that included a song containing excerpts from sacred Islamic texts, calling ...

FALL RIVER — The Bedford Street building that once housed the former Local Carpenters Union 1305 is now officially a mosque. It’s been a month since the Islamic Center of South Coast Massachusetts ...