The mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib in embattled Najaf has been revered by the world’s 120 million Shiite Muslims as a place of pilgrimage for centuries.

As the World Cup draws visitors to present-day Doha, the Museum of Islamic Art reopens with an expanded vision and presentation of Islamic history. By David Belcher DOHA, Qatar — As the world ...

Caitlyn Olson is a scholar of Islamic history in Northwest Africa between the 14th and 18th centuries. Her research focuses on the intellectual, social, and pedagogical histories of the Ash'ari school ...

Archaeologists in Israel say they discovered an ancient mosque in the Negev desert, providing details of early Islamic history in the region. The mosque is over 1,200 years old and dates back to ...

He was a Muslim prophet, a wandering ascetic, an exemplary spiritual guide and master—not a god but a man, like Muhammad, bearing God’s word—appropriated from Christian history and reinvented for ...

Roy Mottahedeh ’60, a longtime professor of Islamic history at Harvard, died at the age of 84 on July 30. By Courtesy of Patricia Mottahedeh ...