There's a new welterweight champion of the world. The challenger Belal Muhammad defeated defending champion Leon Edwards via unanimous decision in the UFC welterweight championship at UFC 304 in ...

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

Back in May, one of the most curious onlookers for Belal Muhammad’s title bout against Jack Della Maddalena was Islam Makhachev. If his pal Muhammad were to successively defend the welterweight title ...

As Belal Muhammad states that he’d like to return in November or December, the new UFC champion is finding himself embroiled in arguments with three world-class former title holders. With a shiny gold ...

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 ...

A long time ago when I was about 8 years old, attending what was then the Central School, every morning we use to sing this song which I absolutely loved and still do. The lyrics go like this: “He’s ...

Muhammad Ali, the brash and ebullient heavyweight boxer whose brilliance in the ring and bravado outside it made his face one of the most recognizable in the world, has died. Muhammad Ali‘s saga is ...

Shabazz Muhammad has just finished another workout. He feels good. He is confident in his game and secure in his mind. His body is strong and fit. He is ready for his shot at the NBA. He is 29 years ...

Muhammad Ali’s saga is without parallel: the champion boxer who was the most famous draft resister in history; a man whose phone was bugged by the Johnson and Nixon administrations yet who later was ...

Michael Muhammad Knight's Muhammad: Forty Introductions asks two questions at the same time — or asks the same two questions 40 times. One is explicit: How should we think about the prophet Muhammad?