Stacy Yount is the general manager of Interact, a Southern California company, which provides supplemental materials for the world history course. She said the company cautions teachers against having ...

(RNS) — The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient, and instead highlights stories of prominent rulers who influenced Islamic civilization. (RNS) — In “Queens ...

Alcohol can be found in every culture, civilization and country. That’s why the subject — and substance — fascinates University of Delaware history professor Rudi Matthee, author of Angels Tapping at ...

In 1325, Ibn Battuta, a young Muslim scholar began a brief pilgrimage that turned into a dramatic 29-year sojourn coloured by shipwrecks, kidnappings, political coups, royal meetings and the Black ...

In Part 2 of our History of Islam series, we explore the conquests of Umar, the second caliph. His military campaigns and strategic leadership expanded the Islamic state dramatically, shaping the ...

On a road trip along historic Route 66, Muslim American couple Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins met Muslim jazz musicians in Tulsa, historians in New Mexico, and date farmers in the Coachella Valley, ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Participants are often surprised when Asad Dandia’s Muslim Harlem tour stops at JC Barbershop in Spanish Harlem — only until he explains it was the headquarters of the country’s first ...