Students in Tajikistan will soon encounter something never before seen in their schools -- religion. The Education Ministry's introduction of "Knowledge of Islam" as compulsory coursework can be seen ...

Extreme drought helped bring about the emergence of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula, according to a new study conducted by an international team of experts. The team, led by Professor Dominik Fleitmann ...

(RNS) — A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though ...

“The result is a kind of ‘Lego Islam’ that can be continually adapted to new requirements and in practice has nothing to do with the forms of traditional Islam practiced by the majority of mosque ...

Islam is the world’s most common state-endorsed religion, according to a Pew Research Center study published Tuesday. Of the 199 countries covered in the survey, 43 designate a particular faith as its ...

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Group preys on ignorance because it allows extremists to impose a radical interpretation of Islam Paris: The employment form asked the new recruits to rate their knowledge of Islam on a scale of one ...

Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion - and not just in Muslim majority nations: 10% of all Europeans are projected to be members of the Muslim faith by 2050, according to a recent Pew ...