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Islamic Center expansion draws divided crowd

A proposed expansion of the Vacaville Islamic Center drew an unusually large and impassioned crowd Thursday evening, as roughly 300 residents filled the McBride Center for a community meeting that ...
Islamic visual traditions have long made space for realities beyond direct perception, and these artists work in calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making to carry them forward.
Texas is home to nearly 650 Islamic nonprofit organizations, more than any other state and roughly 8 percent of all Islamic nonprofits in the United States. The vast majority of these institutions ...
After years of gathering in temporary spaces, Yellowknife’s Muslim community has finally found a home in the newly-constructed Islamic centre in Old Town, arriving just as the hilal became visible ...
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. An 18th-century copper still from Morocco, essential equipment in a Muslim physician’s medical kit.