Islamic education plays a critical role in shaping individuals and society. In modern times, many students struggle to ...

The education of girls and women is universally accepted in more than 200 countries and territories, including nearly 50 Muslim-majority nations. But Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers ...

When I first began teaching Islam, there was no road map. In 2001, I was a visiting assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Iowa—the first full-time professor of ...

Australian Muslims have spent decades building grassroots religious leadership within civic spaces — these systems, while not perfect, provide accountability and independence that top-down regulation ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan religious scholars Saturday criticized a ban on female education, as a key Taliban minister warned clerics not to rebel against the government on the controversial ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- At a spotless and modern-looking madrasah in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh Province, two teenage girls studying the Koran admit that they know little about the Arabic text they have ...

G OVERNMENTS IN South-East Asia once feared the rise of Islamist terrorism, and acted forcefully and successfully to suppress it. These days a different transformation has been taking hold in the ...

Faith groups including Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders have been left fuming over an unfulfilled promise to put religious ...

The decision to bring Hadith teachings into the national school curriculum is seen as the latest government attempt to expand the Islamization agenda in schools. The school curriculum has since the ...