Between 2014-2019, the Islamic State undertook an ambitious governance project in Iraq and Syria that attempted to replicate and mimic the functions, institutions, and structure of contemporary nation ...

Soldiers engage ISIS militants with artillery fire to support Iraqi and Peshmerga fighters in Mosul, Iraq, on July 6, 2017. (Army photo by Sgt. Christopher Bigelow) Twenty years since the September 11 ...

THERE ARE 300 Islamic banks operating in the world today. But this statistic, ubiquitous in presentations about the growth of Islamic banking, is not an entirely positive number: it’s far too high.

Skepticism to crypto in Islamic countries is not a pure rejection, but a result of uncertainty, according to an Islamic finance expert. Suhaida Mahpot, CEO of major Shariah advisory firm Amanie ...

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), created in May 1979 as an ideological force to defend Iran's fledgling Islamic regime, now stands poised to strengthen its political and military clout. In ...

From In re Ayad, decided Friday by the Texas Supreme Court: Relator Salma Mariam Ayad married real party in interest Ayad Hashim Latif in 2008. In connection with their marriage, they signed … [an] ...

From the fatwa on author Salman Rushdie to the attack on the offices of French weekly Charlie Hebdo, the phenomenon of anti-blasphemy actions remains prominent in the Muslim world. At first glance, ...