France didn’t appear overnight—it formed after Roman power collapsed in Gaul and rival kingdoms fought for the ruins. The Franks, led by Clovis, crushed the last Roman commander in 486 AD, expanded ...

Europe's Muslim population has doubled in the last decade, and an estimated 500,000 new immigrants — most of them from Muslim nations — arrive every year. In the third of a five-part series, NPR's ...

IT would be small praise to say that Mr. Scott’s books 1 contain the best account in English of the rise and fall of Muhammadan dominion in southwestern Europe ; for these three well-made volumes, the ...

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli concludes her series on Muslims in Europe with a look at the new religious battle lines that have been drawn between the continent's Christians and growing Muslim population. As ...

The FINANCIAL — Recent killings in Paris as well as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees in Europe have drawn renewed attention to the continent’s Muslim population. In many ...