Western South Asia is one of the most crowded and volatile Rooms in the House of Islam. It is home to more than...

The small Central Asian nation of Tajikistan is home to over 8 million people, 70 percent of whom are under the age of...

The Persian Room encompasses all of modern-day Iran and spills into neighboring Iraq, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Its nearly 100 million inhabitants...

Situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Turkey has a complicated history with a significant role in both continents....

Attila the Hun, Tamerlane, the Golden Horde—legendary names of nomadic Turkic tribes have struck fear across the plains of Central Asia...

People of Iraq The area around present-day Iraq was very important in the centuries before Christ. Mesopotamia comprised the Tigris and Euphrates rivers...

The Arab Room The Arab World is the spiritual heartland of Islam. It is the birthplace of Islam, home to its holiest...

The Afar The homeland of the Afar stretches along the south-western coast of the Red Sea, from the south of Eritrea through...

Moslems in East Africa The 19 nations of the East African Room stretch south from Sudan’s Red Sea coast to South Africa’s...

What started out historically as a method to train boys in Islamic values and memorization of the Qur’an has turned in parts of...