Description: An Introduction to Islam, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author's extensive field work, ...

WXYZ television station, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, produced a series exploring the lives of Muslims in metro Detroit. Over several weeks and through a number ...

In this column the professor continues his series of religious dietary laws. This week: Islam. Before discussing Islamic dietary law, it is helpful to recall how Islamic law actually works. Over the ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, ...

Dan Brown’s New Introduction is the ideal textbook for the study of Islam at the higher-educational level. Unlike its peers that tend to adopt either a classical or a critical approach, this book ...

Islamic banking is banking based on Islamic law (Shariah). It follows from the Quran and the Sunnah, and other secondary sources of Islamic law such as opinions collectively agreed among Shariah ...

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In fact, it’s projected that by the end of the century, there will be more Muslims than Christians in the population. It's not easy to explain an ...

The events after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 brought Islam into the conscious- ness of many Americans, but to this day few have acquired a real understan- ding of this religion and its current ...