When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,...
A new translation of the Quran into the Igbo language was launched on 1 July 2022 at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque...
As Ramadan draws to a close, Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Fitr to mark...
Some public school districts across the nation will be closed on Monday, May 2, 2022, or Tuesday, May 3, 2022,...
What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation outside of their...
In some religions, women are barred from serving as clergy or excluded from top leadership Nonetheless, women have broken into influential roles in these male-led How are these women forging new pathways in these traditionally patriarchal religions? The…
China has expanded its soft-power clout in Indonesia in recent years to accompany its growing economic and political foothold in One of these endeavours is courting Muslim students, known as “Santri”, with This is part of China’s ongoing…
Intermittent fasting is now becoming popular, with many promised health But Muslims have been practising fasting in the lunar month of Ramadan for The Ramadan for 2022 will start on Saturday April 2 and go for about 30…
The French Senate recently voted in favor of a bill to ban headscarves in sports The advocates of the legislation claim that headscarves, or hijab, symbolize Islamic radicalism, patriarchy and lack of women’s Muslim women athletes and women’s…
A recent podcast series on the 2013-14 Trojan Horse affair – an alleged but unproven plot to implement a strict Islamic ethos in some schools in Birmingham – has drawn attention to the place that religion occupies in state-funded education…
Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of During my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019,…
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