Islam

After Brandeis president disgracefully revokes her honorary degree

A friend and former classmate pays tribute to the late scholar and author

Brooklyn synagogue hosts joint Tisha B’Av fast break and Ramadan iftar

The late New York mayor told me he wanted to be remembered by my son Daniel Pearl’s final words: ‘I am Jewish.’

Inheriting Abraham, by Jon Levenson, expertly dismantles the idea of the patriarch as the father of three religions

The school aims to promote a moderate vision of Islam, but it faces deep skepticism from Jews and Muslims

The murder of Shaima Alawadi isn’t a sign of increasing prejudice, but of writers’ credulousness

The Syrian diaspora in Israel watches its once-vibrant ancestral home fall to ruin in the country’s civil war

A Danish art exhibit attacks public figures who ‘insult’ but not those who issue death threats in response

Documentary film The Light in Her Eyes reveals how a Syrian school upends notions about religious education

The Christian right, radical Islamists, and secular leftists agree: this atheist is America’s most dangerous man

Lebanon’s Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who aren’t eager to serve as human shields again

Egypt’s famous comic actor was on trial this week for offending Islam. But for Israeli kids, he was a beloved face on state TV’s weekly Arab Movie.

Hillary Clinton’s State Department policy relies in part on Ayatollah Khamenei’s supposed anti-nuclear fatwa. But the edict may not even exist.

Wanted Women, a new joint biography of two Muslim women, refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual