As the Middle East seethes in turmoil and violence, a new study shows that the Muslim world is sharply divided over the fundamental relationship between the laws of government and the religious ...

STORY: Fiery protests have erupted in the Muslim world, after anti-Islam activists in Denmark and Sweden recently staged public events where they burned or damaged copies of the Koran – the Islamic ...

To Muslims, the Koran is the word of God. Muslims believe the sacred text was delivered by the archangel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad over a period of 22 years in the early 7th century, about 600 ...

Of all the questions raised over reports that U.S. prison guards at Guantanamo Bay mishandled or desecrated the Islamic holy book, one would seem to have a simple answer: How should the name of said ...

DUBAI/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iraq condemned the burning of a copy of the Koran in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday and said Danish staff at the embassy in Baghdad had left the country after ...

For the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, the idea that the Koran is a seventh-century text disseminated by Islam's founder, the Prophet Muhammad, is neither news nor particularly controversial. But in ...

Court convicts man of hate crime for anti-Islam campaigning Says burning Koran, deregatory remarks passed free-speech limit Another man on trial for same offence was shot dead last week STOCKHOLM, Feb ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Protesters hold copies of the Koran as they demonstrate outside the Consulate General of Sweden in ...