For the first 16 years of her life, Ravita Meghwar was a Hindu girl living in a village in Pakistan. But today her name is Gulnaz Shah, and she is married, and a Muslim. Her family members believe ...

Jürgen Schaflechner receives funding from the German Research Foundation and the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" When I began to research the ritual journeys to the Hinglaj ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A Malaysian court on Thursday ruled against the 2009 conversion of three Hindu children to Islam without their mother's knowledge, a verdict welcomed by non-Muslim groups. A high ...

Such films are designed to feed the confirmation bias of an audience that is either already unapologetically Islamophobic or deems itself liberal yet has been subconsciously influenced by anti-Muslim ...

As Indians, it is surprising how little we know of Islam, even though the oldest mosque in the world is in Kerala People often challenge me to write on Islamic mythology. These ‘challengers’ don’t ...

The construction of the first Hindu temple complex in Islamabad was intended to be a powerful symbol of tolerance towards Pakistan’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. Instead, it has become yet ...

Followers of a radical Islamic party have been accused of attacking a Hindu village in Bangladesh and vandalizing about 80 houses in a dispute over a Facebook post. The Hefazat-e-Islam supporters used ...