An old Arab tradition tells of Abraha, a powerful Christian warrior from Abyssinia, who was set to besiege Mecca just after the middle of the sixth century. Abraha wanted to destroy the ka’ba, the ...

He was a husband, a businessman, a grandfather, a warrior, a judge, a politician, and a religious leader. For many of the 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, Muhammad ibn Abdullah (died, 632 CE) is ...

Hazrat Mus’ab bin ‘Umair (ra) was an ardent devotee of the Holy Prophet (sa) who left behind a life of luxury for the sake of ...

IN the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.The Holy Qur’an 10:14-16 says: “Then We made you heirs In the land after them, To see how ye would behave! But when Our Clear Signs Are rehearsed ...

The life and teachings of Prophet Muhammad offer a profound source of inspiration and guidance for people of all backgrounds and faiths. In this era marked by turmoil, division, and uncertainty, the ...

Demonic charlatan or moral exemplar? The church’s mixed response to Islam’s prophet. Those who have discovered C.S. Lewis’s enchanted universe of Narnia might recollect its terrible Empire of the ...

Like many founders of new orders, the prophet of Islam, who lived in the sixth and seventh centuries, emerged as a multifaceted figure who belonged as much to the religious sphere as to the political.

No one knows what the Prophet Muhammad looks like. From historical sources, we can reasonably surmise he was an Arab male, but that’s such a broad category as to say almost nothing about his physical ...

Despite Islam’s status as the world’s fastest-growing religion and more than a decade of intense military engagement in predominantly Islamic Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans know little about ...

When Michael Muhammad Knight — whom The Guardian of London has called “the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature” — set out to teach a religious studies seminar on classical Islam at Kenyon College ...