When people speak about God in various religions, the deity is typically referred to using the masculine pronoun "He." In Islam, Allah is not depicted as male or female — Allah has no gender. Yet ...

Is the name Allah simply a generic name for any and every deity in every religion? This is the way we use the word God in English. But no Muslim would ever call Zeus: Allah! The answer is to make a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 1989 and 2003, more than 50,000 children were enlisted in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. Lives were torn apart, a tragedy Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma used as material for his ...

Allah has answers for any Muslim that feels like too much of a sinner. Do you think you are too much of a sinner, so Allah will not grant you forgiveness? Allah said, “O son of Adam, were your sins to ...