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.

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

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....

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…

The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (surahs), arranged roughly by length.

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.

With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world sees the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.

Israel conjures up myriad associations for peoples of all cultures and religious backgrounds. Inextricably associated with the world's three most prominent religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Israel is steeped in history and conflict...

With her talk on Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time, Armstrong first takes on the definition of Jihad, explaining that as opposed to Holy War, the term more appropriately describes a "struggle" all believers must wage on their way to spiritual clarity.

Attempting to understand religion in all its forms has forever been a source of frustration. In this course, Professor F.E. Peters defines Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as three faith communities of believers, each with its own ideology, history, traditions, and members—past and present.