Islam transcends the Middle-Eastern corridor with which most Westerners associate it, stretching from the western coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. These four maps, ‘Percentage of Muslims Per Country,’ ‘Number of Muslims Per Country,’ ‘Presence o ...

As President Obama argued in his recent West Point foreign-policy speech, extremist groups such as Boko Haram and al Shabab constitute a significant threat to both regional and international security. However, while groups like Boko Haram and al Shab ...

These five charts , ‘Percentage of Shia Among the World Muslim Population,’ ‘Percentage of Shia Muslims Per Country,’ ‘Size of Shia Population Per Country,’ and ‘Dominant Shia Sect In Each Country,’ and ‘Timeline of Main Shia Imams By Sect’ give a co ...