Introductory Activity: Understanding the Basics of Islam. Day 1. Step 1: Assessing Prior Knowledge Explain to your students that you will be examining the religion of Islam and how it fits in with ...

Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in ...

Talal Asad has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of religion (and secularism), particularly the religious revival in the Middle East. Professor Asad is the author of Genealogies of ...

Sister Sana and special guests explore the meaning, philosophy, and modern challenges surrounding the hijab. Despite growing multiculturalism and easier communication through social media ...

This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a ...

To see the perplexities of modern Islam, take four-and-a-half minutes to watch this video recently broadcast on the Egyptian television station Al-Nahar, and translated by the Middle East Media ...

I am a Muslim, but I wasn’t always. I converted to Islam in November 2001, two months after 9/11. I was 21 and living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was a bad time to be a Muslim. But after four ...

A separate question asked whether the traditional understandings of Islam need to be reinterpreted to address modern issues, or whether the traditional understandings of the religion are all that is ...

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam last weekend. Journalist Lauren Booth embraced the faith after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran. She is just one ...

Fashion: Thoroughly modern modesty (to wear your way) By The Newsroom. Published 7th Apr 2018, 06:00 BST. ... Abigayle, 25, decided to develop Modessa after her reversion to Islam.