Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this. There's a quiet ...

Collaged images of (l.) a tablet woven band and (r.) a mirrored image of what is claimed to be the word “Allah” appearing in Viking Age patterns found in Birka, Sweden (both photographs by Annika ...

A huge hand grabbed the back of my neck as I stepped out of the Rex Cinema, and, instinctively, I knew whose hand it was. “I beg you, forgive me, in Allah’s name,” I pleaded. Uncle Usama’s wide palm ...

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