Protesters furious at an anti-Islam film have clashed with police near the US embassy in Cairo before a protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Protesters have marched on US embassies across the Middle East over a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.
A low-budget anti-Islamic film has drawn the ire of Muslims in politically volatile Egypt and Libya, where it has been used to rally protests.
A newlywed Frenchman wants to prove that "being gay and Muslim is possible" after feeling forced for years to choose between religion and sexuality.
By all means, debate and disagree with me below the line. But no one should have to put up with vile racism and bigotry, writes Jonathan Freedland.
Even in polite society, fear-mongering and negative stereotyping are now out of control — as I know from bitter experience, writes Mehdi Hasan.
From east to west Africa, a rise in religious extremism has led to a surge in deadly attacks and kidnappings by groups linked to al-Qaeda.
More than 70 students have reportedly been kicked out of dormitories in a South Coast college for refusing to follow Islamic customs and rules.
A practising Muslim, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool has been trying to mend fences between Islam and the West.
Some Muslims in South Africa have begun taking on tradition. And that is where things are getting heated with divisions bubbling to the surface.
A South African Islamic bank has been investing the millions of rands earned in interest in social development.
A great many local Muslims will not be allowed to perform a Mecca pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as South Africa will likely exceed its attendance quota.
Libya’s interim leader says the country won’t turn into an extremist Islamic country, adding a new government of experts will be completed next week.
Eid-ul-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, has activists, Islamaphobes and Muslim vegetarians in a spin.
A US diplomat says officials have met members of the Brotherhood after Washington claimed it would have contact with Egypt’s biggest Islamist group.
<b>Zeenat Mahomed</b>’s 30-day holy month is a time of prayer, gratitude, fasting, feasts and some really cute headscarves.
Saudi Arabia has begun the biggest expansion yet of Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, to raise its capacity to 2 million pilgrims.
A radical punk revolution was just an idea in a novel by a disaffected Muslim convert but for the bands he inspired the scene became real.
What the Qur'an actually says is shrouded in veils of assumption and opinion. A new book takes a closer look.
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Senegal is turning to Islamic texts and the powerful sway of religious leaders to prevent children from being sent to beg by their Koranic teachers.
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Former UK prime minister’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having what she describes as a "holy experience" during a visit to Iran.
I realised lately that people who are not Muslim see fasting as quite a radical step, says <b>lham Rawoot</b>.
Even in the midst of the most important sporting event South Africa has ever hosted, Muslims at Soccer City found a way to observe the Friday prayer.
Flames burst from the stage as fake fog swirls around a young man in a white robe. He clutches the microphone, gazes into the camera and sings.
The true spirit of Islam may just be found in Timbuktu, the town of sand, mystics, big navels and the Ahmed Baba Institute Museum.
Somalis are moving into neighbourhoods across the country. But being part of the community isn’t that easy. Ilham Rawoot reports.
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Police in northern Nigeria have arrested a Muslim preacher who claims 86 wives and 107 children.
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A historical novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride that was pulled by Random House has found a new publisher.
A romance novel about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts.
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is ready to stand trial in Jordan over his controversial caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Women in Islamic North Africa have quietly and steadily overcome tradition and law to advance their rights.
David Cohen wonders if Western academics will be lured to one of the world’s richest universities despite its strict conservatism.