¹ In this declaration, Afghani described the history of progress as the repeated taking up and passing of the torch of civilisation. His vision of human civilisational progress, shared by Islamic ...

This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty ...

Where does the history of Muslims in America begin? With enslaved African Muslims brought to the U.S. in the 1600s? In the ...

And it is here that we find a profound connection to Islam’s origins in Arabia: The Quran was written in Arabic, and the Arabic script had a particular propensity for being written decoratively ...

Certainly, there is a long history of the translation and explication of the Qur’an in the region, although it is important to note that in the Islamic tradition a translation, being the result of ...

He it is who created the heavens and the Earth in six days – and His Throne was over the waters.