Islam
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Shaken US expats advised to ‘vary routines and schedules’ as UAE continues investigation into stabbing murder by veiled woman who planted bomb
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Government of Andalusia says Diocese of Córdoba is ignoring site’s history as a place of worship for Muslims and Christians
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Greater Manchester’s Sir Peter Fahy says it is not the police’s job to define what counts as extremism
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Former lead singer of band Vital Signs and founder of fashion firm issues apology over remarks made in talk to small group
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Islamic finance is widely misunderstood but its core principles could provide a blueprint for a sustainable global economy
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Homa Khaleeli: It is an undeniably popular name among Muslims, but is it really the most common name in Britain? And why do so many people who have been given it choose to use another instead?
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Pope treads carefully in footsteps of predecessor in ‘moment of silent adoration’ to mark religious cooperation during Turkey visit
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Pontiff calls for greater tolerance on visit to Turkey’s President Erdoğan, who has been criticised for authoritarian policies
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Contemporary version of Shakespeare play has become focus of battle between religious conservatives and creative artists, reports Jason Burke
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Pontiff to try to tackle relations with Islam, Christian persecution in the Muslim world and the Catholic-Orthodox schism
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TV and film actor issued the jail term in Pakistan, alongside husband and owner of a media conglomerate for ‘malicious acts’ of blasphemy against Islam
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Nigel Farage’s local Ukip branch calls out BBC for ingrained liberal bias in holding straw poll about leader in front of noted Muslim place of worship ... wait, hang on
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Seumas Milne: The refusal to accept Britain’s role in a violent campaign without end fosters fear and racism
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President of the Australian National Imams Council had appealed to imams to speak out in their sermons
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Australia books blog Still looking for Alibrandi: migrant teens deserve their own young adult fiction
First-generation teens ill-served by pop culture want to read a range of stories, says Sarah Ayoub, books that can help us all understand their lives -
Intelligence committee chair calls Facebook a ‘safe haven for terrorists’ but rights groups warn of creeping state surveillance
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Repression of Crimea’s original inhabitants is the gravest conflict in Russia today, says opposition politician and historian Vladimir Ryzhkov
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Asia Bibi was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad four years ago after incident in June 2009
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Brian Whitaker: Young people want to know about jihadism – and it’s better that they inquire about it openly, in schools, than elsewhere
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Editorial: Making sure schools fit their students for the society they will live in is part of the inspector’s job
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Kenya’s vice-president, William Ruto, says troops also destroyed Islamists’ camp and lorries after massacre of bus passengers
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Fighters from the Free Syrian Army and several Islamic military groups say Isis is gaining allies or truces due to US bombings
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Ofsted orders east London schools to change or face closure amid concerns that pupils are not being taught British values
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Harun Asif: The Jamiatul Ummah Islamic faith school in Tower Hamlets has been condemned as inadequate – but I did OK after going there
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Judge Howard Riddle orders that Anjem Choudary and other terror suspects’ religious freedom must be respected
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Delphine Chedorge, MSF’s head of mission, talks to Katherine Purvis about the challenges of delivering medical aid in Central African Republic
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Education secretary urged to act with urgency following Ofsted inspections of six independent Muslim schools and a state secondary
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Sir John Cass secondary praised by teachers as school downgraded on safeguarding issues
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Iran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for ‘insulting Islam’
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Foreign imams could be obliged to hold an officially recognised religious qualification before being allowed to preach
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Review Mecca: The Sacred City by Ziauddin Sardar review – ‘The pilgrimage is now an adjunct to the retail’
The House of Saud will not like this book, which argues that the holiest site in Islam has become a centre of brash consumerism and architectural folly, writes Christopher de Bellaigue
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Emergence of video showing four men comes as France reels from the identification of two of its nationals partaking in a mass beheading in Syria
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Abbott government backbencher George Christensen says it’s ‘outrageous’ his grocery dollars are going towards a ‘religious tax’
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Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw is to say seven schools in Tower Hamlets must take more action to protect students
Lord Pearson is right – but for the wrong reasons