Early in the lecture on faith and reason in the Western world, Benedict quoted from a book that recounted a conversation that purportedly took place in the 14th century between a Persian scholar ...

David J. Wasserstein, a professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, will lecture on 'How Islam Saved the Jews' at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Numerous reflections on James's work have appeared this year, most notably a short book by philosopher Charles Taylor, The Varieties of Religion Today.

Since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion, many Muslims Americans have been turning to their faith to try to figure out: What does Islam say about the issue?

It is in this sense that the radicals have hijacked traditional Islam and are the Marxist vanguard of a new Islam, to be imposed on the rest of the Muslim society--and the rest of the world.

The horrors of the Islamic State — including public beheadings and crucifixions — have made manifest what can happen when it is accepted that lethal violence is justified to spread the faith.

Francis Robinson, Other-Worldly and This-Worldly Islam and the Islamic Revival. A Memorial Lecture for Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Apr., ...