Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Dawn marks the beginning of another day in Ramadan. At the partially damaged al-Shafii Mosque in western Khan Younis, the buzz of Israeli drones overhead was not the only ...

From the 9th Century to Today: The Blue Quran Finds a Home in Mecca Museum In a landmark cultural moment for Islamic arts and history, the Holy Quran Museum in Mecca’s Hira Cultural District has ...

For those who heard it, Qur’an Shaheed’s 2020 soul jazz EP Process provided some succour in that bleakest of bleak years. With Pulse, her first album proper, the Pasadena-based pianist and singer has ...

At the beginning of the 2000s, a decisive turning point occurred in Qur’anic and Islamic studies. When one compares the Qur’anic text with the Islamic religion itself, a profound discrepancy becomes ...

Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls – and ...

Standing before a cheering crowd in Damascus’ historic Umayyad Mosque, the broad and bearded Abu Mohammad al-Jolani declared a new chapter in Syria’s history. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani spearheaded a lightning assault that led to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. By Adam Rasgon and Raja Abdulrahim Adam Rasgon reported from Jerusalem, and Raja Abdulrahim ...

Weird Al Yankovic and his wife, Suzanne Yankovic, had an immediate connection when they met Frazer Harrison/Getty "Weird Al" Yankovic may be a comedian, but in real life, he takes his relationship ...

Official Portrait: Retired Commandant of The Marine Corps, Gen Alfred M. Gray, camouflage utility uniform, ribbons worn. (Marine Corps) Gen. Al Gray, the 29th commandant of the Marine Corps, died ...

Can’t tell you what Martin Luther King Jr. was doing in the hours, minutes, before he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, but I can tell you that sixty years later, Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is ...