Karachi-born conceptual artist Rasheed Araeen’s Islam and Modernism encourages Muslim artists and scholars to learn from the Islamic history of ideas pertaining to modernity in lieu of a Eurocentric ...

The challenges facing Islamic modernism are the focus of public lectures and a panel discussion among CU-Boulder experts and others on Thursday, April 23 on campus. The event, “Cultural Challenges for ...

DUBAI (Reuters Life!) - Statuesque models clad in black robes with strategically placed slits and headscarves boasting vibrant flashes of color sashay down a Dubai runway to the theme song for a James ...

Islam has a fundamental flaw in that there's one thing missing from it that Christianity has. The individual. Every religion on the planet is based on the notion of collectivism in one way or another ...

It is characteristic of modernity that people conceive of their social affairs as ordered in and by society. While the evolution of the idea of society is well-researched in Europe, it remains an open ...

Aug 3 (Reuters) - The murder last week of the Catholic priest Jacques Hamel as he celebrated morning mass in a church in the suburb of the French city of Rouen showed that Islamic State is the most ...

The Ottoman Empire was more liberal. By Mustafa Akyol Mr. Akyol studies the relationship between Islam and modernity. At a time when Islam’s place in the modern world is a matter of global contention, ...

“DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what was once the world’s pre-eminent Islamist movement. After the Arab spring ...