Sheila Blair is co-holder of the Norma Jean Calderwood Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College’s fine arts department and the Hamad bin Khalifa Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her expertise includes Islamic art, especially of Iran and Central Asia, art and architecture produced under the Mongols, and calligraphy and books.

Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture in the history, theory and criticism section of the architecture department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is avidly interested in culture and its historical manifestations in architecture. His field is Islamic architectural history, and he is immersed in the history, languages and culture of the Islamic […]

Watch Gallup Senior Analyst Dalia Mogahed’s presentation on the relationship between Muslims and the West.

The popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the so-called “Arab Spring” that endured through the summer of 2011, had for some in the West recast Muslims and Islamic societies as promoters of democracy and values that resonate with Americans.

Read an April 24, 2013, column on CNN’s website about the Boston marathon bombing and how terrorist acts are quickly and inaccurately categorized as “Muslim extremism.”

The website ReligiousTolerance.org explores the diversity of beliefs about human sexuality among faith groups and the unaffiliated.

A Gallup Poll published in August 2011 showed the views of members of different religious communities to the question of whether terrorist violence is ever justified. Nearly nine in 10 Muslim Americans said violent attacks on civilians are never justified, the highest level of disapproval among the groups surveyed.

July 23, 2006, Los Angeles Times op-ed by Zev Chafets on his appreciation of evangelical support of Israel even if they are motivated by predictions of Armageddon.

Read a July 2, 2002, story from Beliefnet.com that examine the potential impact of vouchers on Muslim schools.