An Islamic scholar in the eyes of Nigerian media is a man of many colours. This is because the media has not got semantic filters to separate criminals from clerics. It is more newsworthy if the man ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yahya Cholil Staquf, a leading scholar in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, says traditional Islam has a ...

Kerala scholar Kunhimohammed Parappur receives royal invitation from Saudi King to perform Haj as a distinguished guest.

Aminu Gamawa wants to change the way Islamic scholars think about health care. He's a Harvard-trained lawyer who lives in Nigeria, where maternal and child health are major concerns. According to ...

Islamic scholars and politicians are issuing a call to the world's 1.6 billion Muslims to play their part in tackling climate change. The Islamic Climate Change Declaration will be formally announced ...

In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...

In a groundbreaking document described as a "Muslim sibling" to Pope Francis' ecological encyclical Laudato Si', leading Islamic scholars made clear their faith tradition requires active stewardship ...

In 1698, the noted Arabic scholar and Catholic evangelical crusader, Ludovico Marracci published the first historically-accurate Latin translation of the Qur’an, as well as a refutation of the Muslim ...

TASHKENT -- Tens of thousands have bid farewell in Tashkent to Uzbekistan's most prominent Islamic scholar, Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf. Muhammad-Sodiq died after a heart attack on March 10 at the ...

Reporting from London — Liberal Muslim or closet fundamentalist? Peaceful intellectual or militant in sheep’s clothing? Tariq Ramadan has been called all these things -- and more -- by his friends and ...