Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs hosted an event contextualizing the different understandings of how Islamic teaching pertains to women’s behavior on Oct.

The concept of jihad has many shades of meaning, but the way Osama bin Laden has applied it to political violence has moved beyond the bounds of Islamic teaching on warfare, scholars say. “Everybody ...

ISLAMABAD – Mohammad Hassan secluded himself in a religious seminary in Pakistan’s largest city for 11 years until he memorized the more than 6,000 verses that make up the Quran, Islam’s holy book.

THE education policy 2009, recently finalised by the government but not announced yet, includes a whole chapter on Islamic education. It stipulates that the vision for Islamic education in the ...

You see Islam forbids paying interest on borrowed money. Apparently usury is the ninth greater sin falling between usurping the property of an orphan and fornication. So when ICN decided to finance a ...

Abu-Umar Ahmadov says most of the eight- to 16-year-old students in his evening and weekend classes on Islamic principles and ethics are sent to him by well-intentioned parents. They merely want to ...

Four years ago, the International Leadership School started with 85 students in a commercial space off Parnell Avenue. By the next year, the Muslim-based religious school had grown to 147. This year ...

The assignment on world religions that was handed out to students at Riverheads High School in rural Virginia seemed pretty simple, on its face. A teacher’s printout explained why calligraphy was ...

Doha, Qatar: General Directorate of Endowments at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has launched a project to build an Islamic education centre with a capacity of 750 female students in Al ...