This post is part of the “Islamist Politics in the Shadow of the Islamic State” symposium. The Islamic State announced several months ago that it was “annexing” territory in Algeria (Wilayat al-Jazair ...

Many keen observers of Islamic banking & finance are not satisfied with the current “banking” based model of Islamic financial intermediation and hence suggest that a new Islamic model must be ...

The boys, with some affection, call their school “the box.” It is an acknowledgment that their modern, gray concrete building with 36 classrooms and a basketball court is both protection and ...

Delegates to the World Council of Churches’ Faith and Order Commission meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August had the novel experience of seeing their sessions covered in the Malaysian media with the ...

Two weeks ago, the Islamic State’s Furqan Foundation released its first video in over a year. Entitled “Structure of the Khilafah,” this typically overproduced piece of propaganda dives deep into how ...

President Obama, who swept to power in 2008 in part on his promise to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, is clearly a reluctant warrior. His concern about getting involved in “mission creep” in the deserts ...

The early Islamic model of governance was not born out of tribal power politics or hereditary rule. It emerged as a moral revolution grounded in justice, consultation and service of humanity. Prophet ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the Beyoglu Anadolu religious school in Istanbul, gilded Korans line the shelves and on a table lies a Turkish translation of "Eclipse," a vampire-based fantasy romance by U.S.

A lawmaker in Idaho introduces legislation to prevent traditional Islamic law from infiltrating U.S. courts. In Florida, a legislator proposes striking at the foundations of terrorism with a bill ...

In the Indonesian market town of Cianjur, new rules require government workers to clock in with their thumb prints at a downtown mosque to confirm attendance at morning prayers. That’s on the order of ...

Mustafa Akyol’s recent New York Times column, What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims, bravely broaches one of the most important issues today: reform in Islam. The separation of church and state, the ...