Every year on the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram, the first on the Islamic lunar calendar, Shia Muslims show a distinctive face of Islam, one that sees spirituality in passion and rituals ...

Women praying in a Baku mosque (AFP) BAKU, October 31, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- You can tell a lot about the men at Abu Bakr Mosque by looking at their trousers. The upwardly mobile among them wear designer ...

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that ...

Brookings Institution senior fellow Shadi Hamid discusses his new book, “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World,” on June 9, 2016. Screenshot from Brookings video.

Islam has already shaped its model in Russia, but the question to revive and adapt it to modern conditions still remains open, said Gumer Isayev, head of the St. Petersburg Center for the Study of the ...

Islamic law is playing an increasing role in the Malaysian legal system. While many celebrate this trend, liberal Muslims inside and outside of Malaysia are concerned. In particular, liberal Muslims ...

Have those seeking to make sense of Middle Eastern politics by concentrating on radical Islam neglected the long-lived intra-Islamic confrontation between Sunnis and Shiites? If so, this book offers ...