Anoush Ganjipour, a French-Iranian dual national philosopher, is a globally recognized authority in Islamic political thought ...

In his own article last summer in the Times magazine, Mark Lilla, a professor of the humanities at Columbia University, set out three possible scenarios by which political change might come about ...

When I first began teaching Islam, there was no road map. In 2001, I was a visiting assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Iowa—the first full-time professor of ...

For many young Iranians, Islam no longer represents spiritual meaning. It represents repression. It represents intolerance. It represents the loss of freedom — freedom of conscience, freedom of ...

The Republican Party could jeopardize recent gains with Muslim voters as a rise in anti‑Muslim rhetoric from GOP figures ...

Precious little courtesy or understanding. Are these comments just the overheated responses of incautious leaders following an unprecedented act of terrorism? Partly. But such conservative Protestant ...

Iran historically hosted diverse Islamic traditions, including Sunni, Shia, and Sufi schools of thought. The article argues that greater religious inclusion and respect for Islamic diversity would ...