We live at a time when the American public’s reaction to Islam can often be polarized and reflexive, a time with a desperate need for thoughtful information on this great religion and on its founder.

What inspired you to write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

Al Triri gave the message during his lecture on the ‘General aspects of Prophet Muhammad’s biography’ on Friday. The lecture, one of 22, is part of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award, 17th ...

Despite Islam’s status as the world’s fastest-growing religion and more than a decade of intense military engagement in predominantly Islamic Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans know little about ...

Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Islamic Studies (CIS) held a lecture analysing the Sirah (biography) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and how it can provide guidance and ...

In 2010, Lesley Hazleton was asked to give a brief talk about the Quran. “As far as I was concerned, I was talking to those several hundred people in the hall,” Hazleton said in a recent phone ...

Spiritual and alternative-medicine guru Deepak Chopra, 64, has written dozens of books about faith. His latest, Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet, is a fictionalized biography narrated by the ...