Islam

The Koran, literally meaning The Recitation it is the central religious text for Muslims. Muslims believe the Koran was verbally revealed by God t...

The photo of a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind.Her crime: removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in...

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had wi...

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winnin...

'A powerful corrective' Guardian 'This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads For anyone interested in the futu...

Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became...

Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planni...

In The ProductiveMuslim Mohammed Faris, the founder of ProductiveMuslim.com, provides this practical framework that helps urban global Muslims lead...

John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. In this brilliant portrait of Islam today-- and tomorrow-- he draws on a lifetim...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...