As Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) prepares to decide who will rule it for the next four years, a rift has reportedly emerged between party conservatives and so-called modern pragmatists.

Re “Stage Is Set for Islamic World Renaissance,” Commentary, Aug. 28: One of the reasons that Islam began to decline in influence was the emergence of fundamentalism. Prior to the appearance of these ...

The perils of marginalizing moderate Muslims. The killer of 39 innocent Muslims in Istanbul on the New Year’s Eve, Abdulkadir Masharipov, has been arrested in the Turkish city with his four-year-old ...

Robert Morrison, Bowdoin’s George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of Religion, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation to pursue a book on Islamic influence on the ...