Here is the first full-length feature shot entirely inside Saudi Arabia. Even more remarkably, it is made by a woman, very much the second-class citizen in the Saudi social hierarchy. Haifaa al-Mansour's film offers an unassuming yet beady view of prescribed destiny in the lives of girls and women.

A Christian girl from Pakistan who was wrongly accused of burning the Koran and charged with blasphemy has left the country and started a new life in Canada.

Some prisoners in Guantanamo had al-Qa'ida links but others were guilty only of being Muslims. One of the latter is Ahmed Errachidi, a Moroccan-born London chef whose prison nickname provides the title for his appalling, yet enthralling account. Like Buster Keaton's film with the same title, it has its share of surreal humour: man famed in Soho for his baked monkfish finds himself reluctant leader of terrorist suspects in shackles.

After Woolwich, Cameron pledges to dismantle ‘conveyor belt of radicalisation’ in schools and universities

Preacher, described as ‘dangerously charming’, progressed from shoplifting to turning young men into jihadists

The soldier had been on one tour of Afghanistan

Over 100 of 166 inmates now taking part in protest against indefinite detention

Two hitmen who stabbed an innocent schoolboy to death by mistake have been told they are likely to die behind bars after a judge handed them a minimum term of 40 years.

A 21-year-old man who dumped a pig's head outside a mosque has been jailed for three months.

Hourani's magisterial 1991 study, with an introduction and afterword by Malise Ruthven, starts with the pre-Islamic history of the Arabs (to which only seven pages are devoted), and explains the spread of Islam, the sectarian split between Sunni and Shia, and the mediaeval flowering of Arab learning.

Pakistani court dismisses all charges against her and rules evidence was planted

Pakistan’s president has demanded an investigation into the arrest of a young Christian girl, said to have Down’s Syndrome, who has been accused of blasphemy after she allegedly burned pages of the Koran.

Thousands of people have beaten a man to death before burning his corpse after he was accused of desecrating Islam's holy book, Pakistani police said.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has defended his plan to send copies of the King James Bible to schools across England.