Recently the subject of praying in public has been in the news. The 4 th Circuit Court of Appeals decided to hear a case concerning the constitutionality of Rowan county commissioners opening meetings ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim ...

In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before the sun ...

The call to prayer rang out at 7:49 on a Saturday evening as the sky glowed pink from the setting sun. Women in hijabs and masks gazed up at the mosque as the Arabic hymn floated down: Allah is the ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of Muslims, prostrating themselves in prayer, gathered just feet from the Capitol on Friday for “A Day of Islamic Unity,” an event intended to showcase what organizers called ...

If timing is everything, the couple from Saudi Arabia could not have picked a worse time to decide to build a mosque in Santa Barbara. It was 2001 — not a great time to be Muslim anywhere in America.