Every religious group grew in count in the Middle East and North Africa – a Muslim-majority region – between 2010 and 2020, ...

The report reveals how religious disaffiliation and natural demographic dynamics in certain regions influence the global ...

Historical roots of Islam There have been Muslims in Nigeria as far back as the 12th Century - scholars from northern Africa making their way across the trade routes of the Sahara desert, bringing ...

16, No. 1, Winter 2017 Islamic State's Incursion into North Afr... Islamic State's Incursion into North Africa and Sahel: A Threat to al-Qaeda? This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...

Jihadist insurgents have overrun security positions in north-east Nigeria a dozen times in the past few months.

Photos of women in full Islamic attire - faces covered and in long dresses - next to old pictures of women in short skirts from the 1950s and 1960s in North Africa and the Middle East are often ...

She argues that scholars and policy analysts typically have it backward: they imagine the contemporary state to be constant and treat attachment to Islam as variable, adjustable, and debatable. In ...