This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. An 18th-century copper still from Morocco, essential equipment in a Muslim physician’s medical kit.

Muslims do not use statues or pictures to help them focus on worship as they believe this can lead to worshipping idols (false gods). All praise is Allah’s alone, the Lord of the World … You alone do ...

Greater jihad close greater jihadA Muslim's personal struggle with their faith. is the personal, inner struggle to be a good Muslim and to improve spiritually. It is a constant duty and is seen as an ...

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that ...