But because the crescent is a symbol that has been used by people in many cultures and civilizations long before, and beyond, the culture of Islam to represent things higher than this Earth, the ...

Was it a call to bring the revolts and violence of the “Arab Spring” now sweeping the Middle East to Russia? That is the question that swirled throughout Moscow when a top imam called for the addition ...

The crescent moon has a famously lofty place in Arab and Islamic culture. A symbol of transformation, it signals the beginning and end of every month of the Hijri calendar. Even now, astronomers and ...