Islam

By Islamic standards, the Taliban regime is unusually narrow and destabilising. Security-conscious Muslim-majority states should pause before deciding to recognise it

Istanbul’s 1,500 year-old Hagia Sophia has a tumultuous history and its return to being a mosque is only the latest twist for a building that has long rolled with the times

A chance find in a Damascus bookshop is a reminder that to study Arabic is to be drawn into a wider and vibrant multicultural world

Between the eighth and thirteenth centuries, Islamic thinking and literature was at its height, and one text in particular attempted to catalogue life, the universe and everything

In 2014, the BJP rode the Modi-wave to come to power. With the Modi magic waning, and no wave in sight, the 2019 elections will be a story of alliances and partnerships

Although Myanmar has faced condemnation over a violent military crackdown on the minority Rohingya Muslims, the former military dictatorship is still enjoying a growing embrace by the West

How the US stretches international and domestic laws to wage war on non-state Islamist forces, and how those forces invoke Islamic law to justify their own actions