“There’s a lot of compatibility between the notion of Islamic finance and microfinance,” says Roshaneh Zafar, who established a nonprofit organization that has made small business loans to hundreds of thousands of women. More →

February 4, 2011

Watch our annual reporters roundtable on the most important religion and ethics news of the past year. More →

December 22, 2010

Ethicists and religious leaders are only just beginning to think about the moral questions and ethical consequences of unmanned weapons systems. More →

May 14, 2010

In the aftermath of 9/11, as many Americans tried to learn more about Islam, much was said about “madrasahs.” They are the Islamic schools, some of which, in Pakistan, taught young men not just the Qur’an but terrorism. Madrasahs, it turns out, have a long and distinguished history in the Islamic world and may hold the key to whether Muslim scholars can once again welcome the ideas of others. More →

June 21, 2002