In an article today, he also discusses the work of who he considers the 'first true scientist', al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham: without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside ...

One is a piece of pop scholarship that attempted to offer historical perspective on the early foundations of Islam. The other is a volatile hatchet job deliberately designed to insult and inflame ...

FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, ...

Netflix has picked up a pair of documentaries from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan that look at the world of the far-right in the U.S. and, separately, Islamic extremism in the U.K. and ...

From the 9th through the 14th centuries, Islamic societies experienced “an intellectually productive and brilliant phase” that nurtured great scientists, writes Pervez Hoodbhoy, a professor of nuclear ...

Can Islam and science reconcile?, asks Fatima Agha Al-Hayani, a lecturer and expert on Islamic jurisprudence based in Toledo, Ohio. They were reconciled during Islam’s first 600 years, she reports.

The holy month of Ramadan is being observed by our Muslim brothers and sisters all over the world. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month when the first verse of the holy book Quran was revealed to ...

Ehsan Masood’s opening question, “Does Islam’s vibrant scientific past hold the key to its intellectual future?” misses the entire point (1 April, p 53). The attempt to equate a period of scientific ...