What inspired you to write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

At the age of 25, in the spring of his life, he married Khadijah (ra), a respectable lady of very mature age. She had passed ...

Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Islamic Studies (CIS) held a lecture analysing the Sirah (biography) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and how it can provide guidance and ...

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 ...

An overview about the Prophet Muhammad: Who is the Prophet Muhammad? Muslims believe that God revealed the Quran to Muhammad starting in the early 6th century through the Angel Gabriel. Muhammad is ...

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates examines Muhammad: The Last Prophet, a new animated film depicting the life of the prophet Muhammad. She speaks with Mark Pinsky, who writes about religion in popular culture ...

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

Several BJP-ruled states file cases against hundreds of Muslims, most of them in Uttar Pradesh, for raising the chant.