From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that ...

The earliest juristic writings on Islamic law we possess date from the beginning of the second/eighth century. There exists little or no contemporary writing concerning the laws or customs of Arabia ...

This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how religious belief and expression fit with ... have a distinctly internationalist style owing more to India and Arabia than Southeast ...

Saudi Arabia ... branches of Islam - Iran is largely Shia Muslim, while Saudi Arabia sees itself as the leading Sunni Muslim power. This religious schism is reflected in the wider map of the ...

tracing the evolution of Islamic religion, society and culture from the era of pre-Islamic Arabia through the “Golden Age of Islam.” In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Abraham is described as a ...

with religious conquests being common throughout history. The early Muslim conquests spread Islam from the area of modern day Saudi Arabia, where the prophet Muhammad had originally lived ...

The reasons behind it are almost always cultural, rather than directly religious ... babies. Islam has always condemned infanticide. Female infanticide was common in pre-Islamic Arabia.

The prophet Muhammad proclaimed the religion of Islam in a series of revelations (which came to be called the Qur’an) that came to him between 611 and his death in 632. He lived in Mecca in western ...

ISLAM’s CONCEPTION OF WOMANHOOD differs substantially from images of Arabian women in “heathen,” pre-Islamic Bedouin poetry ... that Muhammad had cast a “gloomy religious veil” over his tribe, this ...

In recent years, Islam has emerged as the fastest-growing religion globally ... its presence across vast territories. From ...

The Department of Comparative Religion equips students for work and leadership in a culturally diverse world. We build students' religious literacy—their familiarity with religious traditions that may ...