The Brentwood Mosque that was in the works for quite some time has been defeated, and though there were issues with zoning, the atmosphere surrounding the campaign against it was

This paper analyzes the factors that aided and hampered the growth and popularity of political Islam in Somalia by tracing the history of al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya. After examining the emergence of

Istanbul's Kaya Ramada Hotel will host the 19th International congress of the Muslim Brotherhood Convention.

Over the past 10 years, conditions in Egypt’s notorious jails have been steadily improving, said Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, a lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political organisation.

Towards the end of his academic career, Bernard Lewis, the famous professor of the Middle East in Princeton University, wrote an essay titled Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle

Decades ago, Lewis and like-minded scholars preached ‘modernisation' or ‘development' as the answer to the Middle East's woes. In the 1950s and 1960s, basing most of its analysis on Euro-American

Militant Islamism is flourishing in the forgotten prisons of the former Soviet Republics, one that is starting to pose a threat to the entire region, writes Robert Templer, Asia Programme

Representatives of the world's intellectuals, politicians, scholars and Islamists are gathering at the Ronald Reagan Building Ampitheatre in Washington , next week for the 11th annual conference for the Center

The new grand sheikh of al-Azhar University, Ahmed al-Tayyib, is considered open-minded and moderate. He rejects all forms of political Islam and would like to continue to lead the most

The 1000 year old Azhar University is one of the world's major centers of Islamic learning which consists of numerous schools universities and institutions. Scholars travel to Egypt from all