Throughout her time in academia, Prof. Chiara Formichi, Asian Studies, has researched the relationship between Asian cultures and Islam, primarily focusing on Indonesia. Formichi began studying the ...

Visiting Scholar Samah Choudhury highlighted the impact of Islam and secularism on the manifestation of humor in Muslim communities in a Tuesday event sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies.

One Detroit’s Chris Jordan spoke to Ariella Gayotto Hohl about making the film “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love” is a new documentary following Ariella Gayotto Hohl’s journey as she processes grief ...

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the ...