Fighter’s Heaven in West Brunswick Township recently welcomed the author of “Ali: A Life” to tour the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Author Jonathan ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

What inspired you to write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a ...

We live at a time when the American public’s reaction to Islam can often be polarized and reflexive, a time with a desperate need for thoughtful information on this great religion and on its founder.

The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. In Eig's view then, Ali was a "superhero." The 53-year-old journalist ...

Muhammad Ali proclaimed himself “The Greatest,” which, when it comes to his boxing, is debatable, but not when it comes to his legacy as an athlete who spoke out on social issues. Jonathan Eig’s new ...

Cassius Clay exploded onto the scene in 1960 as the audacious boxer known as "The Louisville Lip." Clay would go on to change his name and the course of American history -- first as an Olympic and ...

On a chilly December evening in late Rabbi Ul Awwal, warm hearts gathered for a Mawlid (birth celebration) in Euston, London. Such being the time of the year, gatherings in praise of the Prophet are ...

Despite Islam’s status as the world’s fastest-growing religion and more than a decade of intense military engagement in predominantly Islamic Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans know little about ...

In the present climate of fear and suspicion, Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography of the Prophet of Islam is like a burst of sunshine. Most such biographies are marred by either excessive piety or ...