Frank Griffel, professor of Islamic studies and chair of Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies, was honored with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Many keen observers of Islamic banking & finance are not satisfied with the current “banking” based model of Islamic financial intermediation and hence suggest that a new Islamic model must be ...

But the notion that the Prophet might be no more than a figure in an Islamic foundation legend, a poetic creation like Romulus and Remus, was startling, for my sense of the matter (absorbed as a ...

Three self-styled religious reformers were jailed for a year in Bahrain on Thursday after being found guilty of violating the foundations of Islam, in a case that was condemned by rights campaigners ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Religion News Foundation (“RNF”) is pleased to announce the launch of an educational podcast on Islam titled, Re-Sight Islam™, to be hosted by Qasim Rashid. Re-Sight Islam aims to ...

Morocco has built an impressive and strategic network to regulate religious affairs and paid close attention to how Islam is taught, preached, and organized. But to be effective over the long-term, it ...

Creating spaces that invite reflection and contemplation is intimately connected with our purpose as a foundation: to craft perspectives. We are thrilled to announce the AlMusalla Prize as part of the ...

Tuum, the core banking provider, announced the launch of its foundational Islamic Banking and Finance solutions, marking a key milestone towards delivering comprehensive, Sharia-compliant financial ...