HOUSTON – Spanish-speaking Muslims are not new, especially in Houston, but chances are you might not know too many. A newly opened education and community center in Alief hopes to fix that by ...

Jakarta, Indonesia • Mention an Islamic school and many Americans will conjure a mental image of shaking fists, chanting students and hateful slogans aimed at Western enemies. Such pictures, though, ...

Much has changed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Muslims in the Triangle. While the Muslim population is growing in North Carolina, they are still but a small proportion of the state overall. "9 ...

In Arabic, the first meaning of “madrasa” is “school” — in a generic and nonsectarian sense. Borrowed into English, however, the word usually means much more. It is the term’s secondary definition, ...

Researchers at Pew have said their analysis of data on the educational attainment of Muslim women across the world shows that religion plays a much less significant role in limiting their achievements ...

A group of Muslim parents joined parental and religious freedom rights advocates Tuesday to protest a Maryland school system’s new policy that removes the parents’ authority to opt their children out ...

This article seeks to understand major factors contributing to the gender gap as regards women education in Muslim societies. Eastern countries where Muslims are the dominant community still lag ...

Chilean Muslims reflect significant diversity. The Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufis, a global Sufi order that originated in Central Asia, are among them. John Albert, CC BY Nora is a rare sight at the ...

China has passed new legislation that aims to make Islam "more compatible with socialism" within a four- to five-year timeframe, the latest move in a series of crackdowns on the world's largest nation ...

It calls for a “spatial approach” of targeted interventions in Muslim-concentrated spaces and “ghettos” and in sectors and occupations dominated by Muslims. Muslims are India’s largest religious ...

In October 2018, several news outlets reported that Muslims in China were being detained for re-education purposes. The reports suggested that China was participating in the practice of forced ...

While the education level of Indian Muslims has progressed since independence it still lags behind the overall amount of progress, said Ahmed Rashid Shervani, a member of the National Commission for ...