A satirical magazine in France once firebombed for its portrayal of radical Muslims has published a 65-page cartoon biography of the Prophet Mohammed. Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were attacked last ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi ...

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

An overview about the Prophet Muhammad: Who is the Prophet Muhammad? Muslims believe that God revealed the Quran to Muhammad starting in the early 6th century through the Angel Gabriel. Muhammad is ...

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 ...

The observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, called Mawlid an-Nabi, occurs Nov. 9 on the Islamic lunar calendar. This week’s clergy discuss why Muslims worldwide venerate, and some respectfully ...

(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

According to both the Bible and the Qur’an, since the days of Adam and Eve certain select humans in the distant past have heard the One God speaking to them. These people are usually called Prophets ...