KATE SEELYE: Here at al Azhar, one of the Muslim world’s oldest and most respected centers of learning and worship, Muslims come to study and pray and to ask how to live a devout life in the modern ...

David Rutledge: Since September 11th 2001, how often have we heard it said that Islam needs to embrace modernity? Too often, according to leading Muslim intellectual Dr Zia Sardar, who says that the ...

Over the past five years, the Middle East and North Africa have witnessed inspiring events. The world has been amazed at the energy and vision of youth who courageously ushered in change, with some ...

Islam as it is understood and practiced by the vast majority of modern Muslims has little or no place for liberal democracy. The rights and freedoms that Westerners have come to believe are inherent ...

Fethullah Gulen is a provincial Turkish preacher who has inspired a worldwide network of Muslims who feel at home in the modern world. The chief characteristic of the Gulen movement is that it does ...

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‘Something has changed!” That phrase dominated conversation, including the media, in much of France a day after the worst carnage the country has experienced in peacetime. Some labeled the attack in ...

Aly Salem shows a refreshing honesty when he notes how any critique of Islam or even Islamist fundamentalism is often shouted down as being Islamophobic (“Let’s Talk About How Islam Has Been Hijacked, ...

Daniel Pipes, one of our leading experts on Islam, established the Middle East Forum and became its head in 1994. He was born in 1949 and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, Richard Pipes ...

We sometimes imagine that the besieged and occasionally violent form of religiosity known as fundamentalism is a uniquely Islamic trait. This is not the case. As Karen Armstrong has written, ...