(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

Despite Islam’s status as the world’s fastest-growing religion and more than a decade of intense military engagement in predominantly Islamic Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans know little about ...

Ali, an associate professor of religion at Boston University (Profiles, p. 12), takes an innovative approach to a biography of Muhammad, comparing the various accounts of his life in what is probably ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Biographer Jonathan Eig talked about his process for researching Muhammad Ali's life while writing his book, "Ali." He spoke at the 2017 Southern ...