(RNS) — Muslim Americans are gearing up for what overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision could mean for their communities. (RNS) — To Eman Abdelhadi, getting an abortion was the most sensible ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, ...

When the Taliban-led government says it is implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan, it is referring to its own strict Sunni interpretation of Shari'a. There is no universal Islamic law, because ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. They’re gutting the justice system and packing the prisons. They’re ...

Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 7, No. 1, Special Issue: East African and Indian Ocean Perspectives (2019), pp. 121-130 (10 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...

In recent weeks, school boards across the country have become sites of conflict as organized anti-trans and anti-gay protests allied with calls for book bans to target actual and perceived LGBTQ+ ...

On June 24, 2022, in the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson decision, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a 5-4 decision, posing a risk to the reproductive rights of millions of American women.

For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...

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Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions By David Motadel In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the ...

In a letter addressed to district attorneys and sheriffs in Dallas and Collin Counties, Gov. Greg Abbott called for an investigation into “possible criminal violations by Sharia tribunals masquerading ...