Muslim Americans Bridging Communities Through Art and Music. A number of Muslim Americans are using art as a point of connection, not discord, between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States.

But music is definitely something that’s not always traditionally accepted in Islam. That’s been a struggle for me since I was young—people telling me that I was going to go to hell or ...

The singer is a contestant on a new Islamic version of "American Idol," launched to promote and drum up talent for one of the Arab world's newest Islamic pop music video channels.

Brother Ali hit fame for his hard-hitting critique of racism and inequality in the US. His rap songs mix the political with ...

With President Trump’s determined attempts to restrict travel from six Muslim-majority countries, several concerts in cities around the United States have presented music from those regions. Some of ...

PALOS HILLS, Ill. (RNS) – A musical play explores the shared history of Islam, Africa and blues music through the eyes of an enslaved storyteller-musician.

And that suits him just fine. The music he plays is about three chords and the truth, so there is no hiding the fact he’s a Muslim trying to make it in a genre that’s been resistant to change.

Despite differences on the forbiddance of music in Islam, it still prevailed as a method to also express love for the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and the religion. One of the most beautiful ...

Presented in cooperation with Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites, musicians Jamuna Murali, Raja Rajeshwari Bhat, and Ali Durrani will showcase and detail the nuances and intricacies of two traditions of ...

Despite being an Israeli who plays traditionally Muslim music in a massive country with very few Jews, Ben-Tzur says he has always felt accepted in India, in part because he “has no agenda.” ...

In 1998, like other Indonesian musicians who discovered Hijrah, he left his band and started creating Islamic music after a fellow musician told him to return to his faith.