In this column the professor continues his series of religious dietary laws. This week: Islam. Before discussing Islamic dietary law, it is helpful to recall how Islamic law actually works. Over the ...

Description: An Introduction to Islam, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author's extensive field work, ...

For much of my childhood in India, the sound of the adhan – the Muslim call to prayer broadcast from the minaret of a mosque – was what I heard upon waking each morning. In the shared religious life ...

WXYZ television station, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, produced a series exploring the lives of Muslims in metro Detroit. Over several weeks and through a number ...

The events after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 brought Islam into the conscious- ness of many Americans, but to this day few have acquired a real understan- ding of this religion and its current ...

WXYZ television station, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, produced a series exploring the lives of Muslims in metro Detroit. Over several weeks and through a number ...

Firestone provides a balanced introduction to Islam that will be helpful for all beginners, but particularly for the Jewish readers for whom it is intended. The first part offers a survey of Islamic ...