The Islamic era’s epoch (reference date) was designated as the year of Muhammad and his companions’ flight from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijrah, which corresponds to 622 CE in the ...

brutal killing of companions and so on. But history could not find such a glowing and tremendous person like Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) who dealt his arch enemies as cherished guests.

The poem describing the inner meaning of the Prophet's birthday goes on to describe the very physical experience of birth, that magical experience where a life enters this world through a grace ...

A Paleo-Arabic inscription on a boulder near an abandoned mosque in Saudi Arabia may have been carved by Ḥanẓalah bin Abī ʿĀmir, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a new study finds.

A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic.

NEW YORK — Vivid illustrations of the underworld are currently on view at the Asia Society, where in a new exhibition the dead dance among the flames in illustrated manuscripts and other ...