Many in the West see Iran as a nation defined by a revolution. It’s also one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations that’s withstood centuries of struggle. How Iran’s history affects what’s ...

Fourteen Muslim youths who broke the Ramzan fast on a boat on the Ganga in Varanasi have been arrested. What could have ...

Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus, at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), passed away in late January 2026.

New York City is rolling out lessons on Jewish and Muslim American history. Too often, some leaders say, what students know ...

On Dara Shukoh's 411th birth anniversary, the loss of his dream of an Indic Mughal empire continues to haunt India.

The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, during the holy month of Ramadan marks one of the most consequential turning points in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His successor, his ...

MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some feel there has never been any scientific or philosophic prose in Urdu and most of ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the so-called supreme leader of Iran, is dead. So too are at least 40 senior Iranian regime officials, all of whom were killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic ...

We embrace Black History Month as a sacred moment of remembrance and return — a time to honour heritage, resistance, and identity, truths long buried or obscured in history books and classrooms — so ...

The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process By Hussein Omar Ferdinand and Isabella, the “most Catholic” rulers of Spain, didn’t back ...

Iran has a grim history of crushing dissent, but the latest crackdown dwarfs anything seen during the repressive Islamic theocracy’s 47 years in power, evidence trickling out of Iran suggests. Human ...