Islam

A group dedicated to better public understanding of Islam is conducting a three-day conference at the Hilton Parsippany. Source: Muslim group holds interfaith conference at Parsippany Hilton

The bill, passed by the province's legislature, would effectively ban face coverings worn by Muslim women at any time they are giving or receiving public service. Source: Quebec Enacts 'Religious Neutrality Law' To Curb Full-Face Veils In Public : The Two...

With his nonprofit organization, Rami Nashashibi has spent two decades tackling poverty, systemic injustice and building communities with a diverse coalition of residents Source: Muslim activist named MacArthur Genius - Chicago Tribune

Indonesia recently hosted an unusual conference of Muslim women religious scholars that attracted hundreds of participants from across Indonesia as well as from countries such as Kenya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. This International Forum of Women Ulamas...

Naeemah Khabir, a 35-year-old devout Muslim who works for the Department of Veteran Affairs in Philadelphia, has attended matchmaking events from New Brunswick, N.J., to Queens, N.Y. She has used several matchmaking services. Khabir, of Elkins Park, who...

Muslim student athletes at one U.S. high school no longer have to be slowed down by worries that their headscarves might fall off.Deering High School in Portland, Maine, is providing sport hijabs with the goal of making Muslim girls comfortable — and...

On one side, impassioned Prince William County residents dressed in green shirts argued that constructing a new house of worship would disrupt their quiet community, choke the roads with traffic and go against the zoning regulations meant to protect the...

As Saadia Baig scooped chili beans into a bowl, Asiya Shakir placed a heaping helping of salad and crackers onto a plate.It was time for lunch, but the two women had no intentions of eating the food themselves — they were fasting until sunset in...

For Rudayna Aksh, the decision to bring her 13-year-old daughter, Dalya Zeno, from Aleppo to Los Angeles was made for her.“We were sleeping one night,” Aksh remembers. “We heard, like, a big bomb around our house.” The Syrian war had begun and young girls...