Last week the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, spent 4 days in Israel as the very-well-received guest of the government. At the center of the visit were working meetings between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and Loong.

In his new book “Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Empire, Islam, and European Modernity 1788-1914” Mustafa Tuna explores how tsarist Russia, sought to “manage” its minorities — specifically the Muslim communities of the Volga-Ural region.

compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MARCH 4, 2015: A year-long Rethinking Global Cities project at Duke, supported by the Andrew

Advice on How to Get Started on an International Development Career by AMBER WATSON for ISLAMiCOMMENTARY on OCTOBER 30, 2014: “20 years ago, I was in y

Chinese academic given life in prison for Uyghur website while radical Han separatist and nationalist web site flourishes.

Columbia University graduate student Sarah Wall interned this summer at a youth center in Indonesia where sexual education and reproductive services were administered to at-risk teens.

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This is the PDF version of commentary by Prof. Carl Ernst from his attendance at a Sufism workshop in India and his subsequent lecture tour in India, which he shared with TIRN and which was published on the TIRN website. It includes comments.

UNC-Chapel Hill Islamic Studies Professor Carl Ernst was in India as principal academic organizer of an international workshop on “Practice, Performance, and Politics of Sufi Shrines in South Asia and Beyond.” Here is his report.

This year the Xinjiang government has continued Wang Lequan’s anti-religion policy and has instructed Muslim students, teachers, and civil servants in public institutions to forgo Ramadan fasting, and instead eat free meals monitored or provided by..

Coffee, soap, and the triangular lateen sail, are also highlighted as important Islamic inventions and cultivations.

Last Fall, the China-Arab Economic Forum, renamed the China-Arab States Expo, resulted in more than $42 billion in contracts— surpassing in one year the combined value of contracts signed at the previous three China-Arab forums.

Early last month an “Interfaith Academic Conference on Security, Peace and Coexistence” was convened in Myanmar to comparatively discuss religion, security, and citizenship, and the relationships between education and extremism...

Two particular Uyghur visits to Communist China’s capital, Beijing, might be said to define the trajectory of the relationship between China’s Han rulers and the ruled Ugyhur people of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

With the rapid speed of globalization, the world is getting smaller and shrunk to the size of a village. This process is countered by nationalist movement in different forms and manifestations all over the world and gives rise to ultra nationalist ..

Recently Myanmar has been in the news for more than just its surprising political reforms and nascent transition from military rule. Violent attacks—mostly by Buddhists against Muslims—have occurred in cities across the country and an insistent...

Accounts of prisoners in China being executed then carried half-dead into a medical van where their organs are removed for sale, without their permission, to the wealthy — are the kinds of stories that haunt families, including China’s Uyghur Muslims

This week China’s new president, Xi Jinping, separately hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas —meetings that some analysts say is indicative of China’s desire for a more pro-active role in Middle East.

The veil is a piece of fabric that is politicized like no other. It is the persistent topic of fiery political debates and possibly the most stigmatized, praised, banned, and enforced article of clothing...