Born, according to tradition, around 570 in Mecca, the founder of Islam was a preacher, a prophet and a legislator, as well ...

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim movement, concluded the tutorial of his designated successor, Elijah Muhammad, in 1934. That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam ...

Believing Muslims say we should have faith in the Quran because Allah literally spoke it to the angel Jibreel, who in turn ...

Muhammad also did not marry a Catholic nun, contrary to the post's claim. Gettysburg College states that he worked for and eventually married a woman named Kadijah , who was a wealthy merchant.

This hijrah, or migration, is considered by the Muslims as the start of Islam’s role in history. By 632, the year of Muhammad’s death, most of the tribes of Arabia had come to accept Islam.

Journalists at LeMan are in fear for their lives after the Turkish satirical magazine published cartoons appearing to depict ...

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...

A new era. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.”He downplayed previous teachings about Black ...

Just 3,495 boys were named after the founder of Islam in 1996, ONS data shows. This had doubled by 2007, reflecting the surge in the UK's Muslim community. In terms of crude numbers, the name ...

(RNS7-SEP06) Officials of the Slidell City Court in Louisiana have erected more than a dozen pictures of historical lawgivers, including Islam's Prophet Muhammad, alongside a portrait of Jesus.