Taz Ahmed is 38, single, Muslim, and Bengali. She describes herself as spiritual, but not particularly religious. When she was growing up, her immigrant parents hoped she would marry an I.T. worker ...
(RNS) — Where does the history of Muslims in America begin? With enslaved African Muslims brought to the U.S. in the 1600s? In the 1930s, when the Nation of Islam was established by Wallace Fard ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid about "American Muslims," a new PBS series she hosts. A new docuseries opens with a portrait of an African man, Mamadou Yarrow ...
One Detroit’s Chris Jordan spoke to Ariella Gayotto Hohl about making the film “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love” is a new documentary following Ariella Gayotto Hohl’s journey as she processes grief ...
Cat Stevens has finally laid bare his near-misses with death – as well as his drug-fueled visions and dramatic conversion to ...
WASHINGTON – One of the greatest stories rarely told about the long history of Muslim immigration to the United States stretching back hundreds of years is actually being told most days by Amir ...
Told as a children’s fable, “Muhammad: The Last Prophet” is the story of Islam’s divinely inspired teacher and serves as a primer, presenting the religion’s basic principles in a straightforward ...
For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...
In “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” your story in this week’s issue, someone—presumably an F.B.I. agent—is surveilling the home of an Afghan family in West Sacramento, California. How did this scenario ...
A development economist has been cleared by Monash University of data fabrication alle­gations, after concerns about research ...