Love is a great and important factor in life. No one can seriously claim that he or she does not need to love or be loved. The child, the teenager, the lover, the wife, the husband, the elderly man, ...

As a prominent Islamic scholar, Omid Safi has written often in defense of the breadth and nuance of Islam. But for his latest book, Safi hones in on the idea of love, and how mystic Islamic poets ...

A heartbroken woman finds solace in five great love stories from the Islamic tradition. A young woman devastated by the loss of her father seeks solace from five of Islam's greatest love stories, ...

Ariella Gayotto-Hohl and Omid Safi are featured in the documentary “Islam’s Greatest Love Stories.” They discuss some of the stories the film explores, including one on the poet Rumi and the tale of ...

There are so many lies that get circulated online about Islam that are sometimes printed and repeated as if they’re facts. Some of them really amuse me, especially the one about how Muslims believe in ...

On Aug. 22, the documentary “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love” premiered on PBS and PBS’s YouTube Channel. The nearly two-hour film, which can currently be viewed free here for the next six months, ...

Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University in northern Pakistan. Video shows dozens of enraged students dragging ...

A young couple watch the sunset over Chitgar Lake in Tehran. Arne Immanuel Bänsch/dpa Dating is often fraught with its emotional ups and downs, compounded with the difficulty of meeting "the one" and ...