Islam Audio & Video

Dr. Huston Smith discusses their origin, founders and what each teaches as to life’s meaning and the way to its fulfillment.

Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time.

Noted translator and poet Coleman Barks, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies, presents the poetry of 13th century Afghan-born Sufi mystic and poet, Jelaluddin Rumi…

In Karen Armstrong's biography of the Prophet of Islam she describes Muhammad as a respectful man who lived a decent life.

Islam and Christianity share both remarkable similarities and remarkable differences. In the grand scheme, both are relatively recent religions, with Christianity taking hold in Northern Europe at about the same time that Islam took hold in the Persian world (although Christianity appeared on the scene six centuries before Islam).

For many people, Islam remains a mystery. Here, Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill examine what its adherents believe and how their religion has shaped them....

Born into the factious world of war-torn Arabia, Muhammad's life is a gripping and inspiring story of one man's tireless fight for unity and peace. Deepak Chopra shares the life of Muhammad as never before, putting his teachings in a new light.

Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith...

In this lecture professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the similarities and differences of early western Christendom and the Islamic World known as Dar al-Islam.

Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Moderated by Laurie Goodsteing, October 5, 2010 at 92Y.