Quran
‘More merciful than Yahweh’: Jack Miles on God in the Quran
By Yonat Shimron — January 22, 2019
(RNS) — In his new book, Miles arrives at some surprising conclusions on the nature of God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran.
Amazon pulls offensive bathmats with Quranic text
By Aysha Khan — January 10, 2019
(RNS) — After complaints from Muslim customers, Amazon has removed over 20 product listings that included doormats, bathmats and toilet covers featuring verses from the Quran.
Florida’s ag commissioner sworn in on nation’s first Hebrew Bible
By Yonat Shimron — January 8, 2019
(RNS) — Nikki Fried, the first Jewish woman to serve as commissioner of agriculture in the Sunshine State, called her alma mater to ask if there was a special Bible she could use for the occasion.
I produced an interfaith play. Then all hell broke loose
By Malik Gillani — December 14, 2018
(RNS) — The anti-Islamic reaction to a play about the birth of Jesus shows how badly we in America today need to hear each other's stories.
Surgeon who recites Bible and Quran to patients wins UN award
By Bob Smietana — October 5, 2018
(RNS) — Inspired by his faith, this surgeon has spent more than two decades working to save the lives of people fleeing war and persecution in Sudan and South Sudan.
What Richard Dawkins doesn’t get about the Muslim call to prayer
By Rose Aslan — July 31, 2018
(The Conversation) — Richard Dawkins' tweets are not the first time the Muslim call to prayer has been misconstrued or that Muslims have been attacked for their prayer practices around the world.
Cardinal to African faith leaders: Negotiate peace with terrorists
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — June 8, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — As violence-torn Africa grows weary of solutions that haven’t worked, Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan is proposing a controversial alternative.
Jefferson’s vision of American Islam
By The Conversation — June 7, 2018
(The Conversation) — Jefferson supported the rights of Muslim adherents and evidence exists he had been thinking privately about their inclusion in his new country since 1776.
Winter books: The getaway edition
By Kimberly Winston — January 23, 2018
(RNS) — Here are eight recently published books that deal with religion and spirituality in plot, theme or subject matter — without proselytizing.
Islamist militants carry out terror, not jihad
By Asma Afsaruddin — June 9, 2017
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (RNS) And here are the Quranic verses that prove it.
What is the Shia-Sunni divide?
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 8, 2017
(The Conversation) This historical schism continues to permeate the daily lives of Muslims around the world.
Thou shalt not speak alternative facts: religion and lying
By Kimberly Winston — February 16, 2017
(RNS) The three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- weigh in on the spiritual and moral consequences of telling a whopper.
Is Trump fulfilling Quranic prophecy?
By Tahir Nasser — January 31, 2017
(RNS) The Quran speaks of a man who is a 'mean swearer, a backbiter, slanderer, forbidder of good, transgressor and sinful.'
In Islam, ‘moderate rebels’ are extremists
By Tahir Nasser — January 4, 2017
(RNS) 'Moderate rebels,' a term often used to describe certain factions of anti-government fighters in the Syrian civil war, is an oxymoron as far as the Quran is concerned.
Trump should heed French economist Piketty and levy an Islamic tax
By Tahir Nasser — November 22, 2016
(RNS) Thomas Piketty advocated for the kind of tax that would help the working class that elected Donald Trump. The bad news for the president-elect is that it is a solution that has actually been a part of Islam for the past 1,400 years in what is known as zakat.
