(RNS) The practical approach these faculties have taken contrasts sharply with the increasingly shrill declarations coming from Germany’s far-right. (RNS) While Germany’s politicians are loudly ...

While Germany’s politicians are loudly debating whether Islam is compatible with democracy, five of its state universities are quietly developing new Islamic theology faculties that are striving to ...

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

American LGBT Muslims continue to face the twin challenge of resisting anti-Muslim bigotry in the LGBT community and resisting homophobia in the mainstream American Muslim community. But there is good ...

“God is not a dictator,” says Mouhanad Khorchide, a theologian who directs the Center for Islamic Theology at the U. of Münster. His recent book, Islam Is Merciful, has prompted a backlash among ...

In the six weeks since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon the mainstream media has flooded theairwaves and newspapers with glib commentary about the nature of Islam and whether or ...

Nestled in the beautiful but expensive suburbs of Los Angeles, Islamic theology school Bayan Claremont really could have used $800,000 federal grant money it was awarded from the outgoing Obama ...

While Germany's politicians are loudly debating whether Islam is compatible with democracy, five of its state universities are quietly developing pioneering new Islamic theology faculties to try to ...