Prophet Muhammad once related the story of Ishmael and his mother: “Abraham brought the mother of Ishmael and her son to the Ka‘ba under a tree on the spot of Zamzam. During those days no one lived at ...

Rod Sopsher Sr. first noticed the hands. The calves, thighs, biceps and chest eventually followed the same path on Sopsher’s baby boy, Ishmael, who is now 6-foot-5, 335 pounds. Many other qualities, ...

For more than seven decades political nationalist leaders in Israel and Palestine have failed to find a way to end the conflict between their two peoples. Perhaps it is time for religious leaders who ...

Note: Several paragraphs of Sr. Levine’s column was accidentally omitted in the July 9 publication. It is presented here in its entirety. All three monotheistic faiths, Islam, Judaism, and ...

Readers of the Bible approach the subject from a variety of perspectives. People with a historical bent use the text to reconstruct the history of ancient Israel. People with a theological bent use ...

The "Ishmael" books are aimed at encouraging radical social change — but their author says hostage-taking is definitely not the change he had in mind. Daniel Quinn's story of Ishmael, a telepathic ...

The war between the two sides in Sudan is a civil war that has killed at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, displaced 10-12 million people, and pushed many to the brink ...