Ten years ago, Muhammad Syed became an ex-Muslim. Born in the US, he grew up in Pakistan believing "100 per cent" in Islam. "You don't encounter doubt," he says. "Everyone around you believes it." ...

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...

This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how religious belief and expression fit with extant and modern polictical and economic infrastructures. It is difficult to determine ...

(Dursun, a former Shia Muslim and scholar who became an atheist, was murdered because of what he wrote about Islam and religion. His book criticizes religious books — mainly the Koran.) ...

Jacques Jomier attributes this phenomenon to the way Islam moves through the world: Islam is like a clear stream, with well defined characteristic, which is the same everywhere. But the soil over ...

Before the message of the Prophet Muhammad spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula, local medical attitudes were based on the words of the founder of Islam: “Make use of medical treatment ...

The word 'Islam' in Arabic means submission to the will of God. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims believe there is one true God Allah (the Arabic word for God). Muslims believe that ...

The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a comprehensive history of Islamic civilization, tracing its development from its beginnings in seventh-century Arabia to its wide and varied presence in the ...

Kala and Radit are a husband and wife who live happily and feel perfect with their only child named Bima. One day, this happiness slowly disappeared after they had to go to Radit's old house ...

Through the lenses of belief, narrative, and memory, this volume outfits the reader with a new way of understanding ‘Islamic sectarianism’ from its origins at the dawn of Islam up to its ...

Ranti is a mother and wife who is very devoted. Ranti has a daughter whom she loves dearly, but her condition has been disabled since birth, Nina. One day, Nina experienced a fatal accident ...