Why do women in the Muslim world seem to receive disproportionate forms of punishment, even when the Koran mandates that men and women should be punished equally? Learn more in...

Hanan al-Lahham is a religious teacher in Damascus, Syria. Although she did not receive a formal education in Islam when she was young, she endeavored to study and now...

Muslim-Canadian author and commentator Irshad Manji explains clerical authority in Islam, and how the religion's lack of a unified organizational system could open the door to reform.

Filmed in the village of Agadez in northern Niger, this revealing documentary chronicles seven typical cases heard by the local Islamic judge, or "Cadi," who decides cases through interpretation of...