BILL MOYERS: It is not easy being a mainstream American Muslim these days. The specter of radicalism hangs in the public mind, and even the most assimilated of believers...those born here or ...

Current Muslim contributions to Western human-rights discussions are inadequate, and a “radical restructuring” of Islamic human-rights discourse is necessary, writes Imam Zaid Shakir, spiritual leader ...

Imam Zaid, who like Imam Siraj is African-American and who also has roots in poor, urban neighborhoods, has been likened to his hero Malcolm X. Born Ricky Mitchell in Berkeley, Calif., and raised in ...

Bill Moyers interviewed Imam Zaid Shakir for the first episode of NOW WITH BILL MOYERS, which aired January 18, 2002. "Human beings are more complex than that, that indeed in any religious faith you ...

Imam Zaid Shakir compliments LMPD on professionalism, dignity during Muhammad Ali's memorial service.

(RNS) — Muslim women are no longer going to be patient with the default male-led scholarship on gendered violence and sexual trauma within an Islamic framework. (RNS) — If one thing has been made ...

reporting from BERKELEY — They come to him — students, co-workers and congregants alike, sometimes in tears — with their questions: What should we do, Imam Zaid? What should we do about the suspicion, ...

The names of three Muslim religious leaders, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf, keep coming up in a surveillance report released by the New York Police Department. The ...

Northwestern Muslim-cultural Students Association invited keynote speakers Imam Zaid Shakir and Imam Omar Suleiman for a conversation Thursday about reconstructing the perception of achievements by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROSEMONT, Ill. — The nation’s largest ...