Frank Griffel, professor of Islamic studies and chair of Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies, was honored with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Morocco has built an impressive and strategic network to regulate religious affairs and paid close attention to how Islam is taught, preached, and organized. But to be effective over the long-term, it ...

Three self-styled religious reformers were jailed for a year in Bahrain on Thursday after being found guilty of violating the foundations of Islam, in a case that was condemned by rights campaigners ...