Editorial note: Here & Now is showing these images from the 14th and 16th centuries, which can be found in museums, libraries historical textbooks and Islamic books of art. In this interview, our ...

While the Buraq is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran, descriptions of it can be found in Ibn Ishaq’s 18th-century ...

An Egyptian Sufi Muslim practices ritualized Zikr (invocation) to celebrate Mawlid an-Nabi, or the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, in Cairo, Jan. 3, 2015. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh Muslims generally ...

For many Muslims in Britain, this weekend will mark a time of celebration. They will join other members of the Islamic faith around the world in marking the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. Mawlid is ...

Since the advent of Islam, more than fourteen centuries ago, its opponents have spared no effort to enshroud its Prophet’s character with doubts, drawing a deformed image of him to slander his ...

Almost all parents love their own children much more than they love the children of their neighbors. This is natural. Most parents are also able to acknowledge that some of their neighbor’s children ...

No one knows what the Prophet Muhammad looks like. From historical sources, we can reasonably surmise he was an Arab male, but that’s such a broad category as to say almost nothing about his physical ...

Khadeejah bint Khuwaylid: She, may Allah be pleased with her, was the first person to believe in Allah The Almighty and the Prophet . During the Jaahiliyyah (the Age of Ignorance before Islam), she ...

Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The BBC News website looks at why the depictions have caused such offence. What does ...