The pilgrimage to Mecca, which forms the fifth pillar of Islam, is a ritual that, whilst representing a spiritual journey all Muslims should make once in their life if possible, can seem unfathomable ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dr. Qanta Ahmed's journey into the heart of Islam began as a spur-of-the-moment decision to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. Despite misgivings about women — even doctors — being ...

Robert Martin says understanding Quran’s meaning and beauty made him wonder why everyone is not Muslim - Anadolu Ajansı ...

And in so doing one is left undeniably humbled by the miracle of transcendent faith, as we read and listen to the words of believers experiencing what must be seen for them not only as an encounter ...

Have you ever noticed how the person who converts to a new religion, or philosophy of any kind, tends to be a whole lot more fanatical about their new faith than those who were born into it? Perhaps ...

As America faces today the seeming inevitability of Iran becoming a nuclear power, I am reminded of a similar backdrop when I decided to become a Muslim. It was 1979, and I was in my second year of ...

Anyone who is still pondering the post-9/11 question “Why do they hate us so much?” will find no simple answer in Akbar Ahmed’s intellectually engaging and passionately written book, but they will ...

The purpose of great national collections like the Smithsonian or the British Museum must be to explain the world to itself. And in just this spirit, the British Museum has launched an exhibition that ...

Born Irish Catholic in upstate New York, Knight converted to Islam as a teenager and wrote an influential underground novel, The Taqwacores, about young Muslim-Americans struggling to integrate their ...

I have just finished reading a deeply disheartening book by my friend Professor Akbar Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed is the former Pakistani high commissioner to Britain and member of the faculties of Harvard, ...