Hijab is merely a custom that, by force of tradition, has turned into a religious symbol — nothing more. The early Quranic ...

In Islam, the production and promotion of knowledge in Islam serves a higher purpose — it is neither a self-serving pursuit ...

I VIVIDLY remember my maiden trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2004. Arriving as a Member of our Parliament’s Lower House and coming from the tropical heat of Malaysia, I was utterly shocked to find ...

Why should everything be reduced to the binary of Halal and Haram? It’s pop Islam—faux piety, driven by pseudo-Islamic power ...

Critic-turned-novelist Jonathan Meades on the strangeness of Starmer, poor policing and his drastic cure for London’s ills ...

Islamic Arts Biennale marks the public debut of Kaaba’s kiswah in Jeddah, redefines Islamic art to put Saudi Arabia on global art map ...

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

The forthcoming DC is expected to create over 400 new jobs and will serve as the company’s Florida Division headquarters.

Committed to practice and teaching, the Bangladeshi architect has been active since the 1990s in projects that respond to the ...

Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Turkey has taken a clear stance against the Assad regime, supporting opposition and rebel forces. Following the fall of the Alawite regime and the rise of ...

The organisers of the Islamic Arts Biennale have ceased trying to define Islamic art in favour of encouraging full expression of what it means to be a Muslim in the most diverse and inclusive way poss ...

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese ...