Video Book Review: The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Is Christianity dying; Seventy percent don’t believe in Eucharist?
Just one-third of U.S. Catholics agree with their church that Eucharist is body, blood of Christ Source: Pew Research Center By Gregory A. Smith is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center. Transubstantiation – the idea that during Mass, the bread and wine used for Communion become the body […]
A New Book: God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Source: Amazon By Alan Mikhail: A leading historian of his generation, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the […]
Race for Coronavirus Vaccine Pits Spy Against Spy
Source: New York Times By Julian E. Barnes and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research […]
The Big Short 2015 Film Based on a True Story
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay. Written by McKay and Charles Randolph, it is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis showing how the financial […]
Dr. Abdus Salam and his Hindu teacher
On this #WorldTeachersDay I will like to bring to you a poignant touché story. Dr. Abdus Salam visited India in December 1979, soon after attending the Nobel award ceremony in […]
Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine generated an immune response, study says
By Elizabeth Cohen, Naomi Thomas, Zahra Ullah and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN) A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused […]
Catholics, not evangelicals, will make or break Trump
Mark J. Rozell: Catholics, not evangelicals, will make or break Trump Source: Pittsburgh Post – Gazette BY MARK J. ROZELL Much has been made of Donald Trump’s support from white evangelicals in 2016, but a case can be made that his unlikely victory was anchored as much by his strong […]
Novavax Vaccine Phase I / II Trial Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles for the war against Covid 19, especially the vaccines. Abstract BACKGROUND NVX-CoV2373 is a recombinant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (rSARS-CoV-2) nanoparticle […]
Who is Winning the Vaccine Timeline
Covid Vaccine Frontrunners Will Soon See Their Moment of Truth Source: Bloomberg By Naomi Kresge Early data anticipated as soon as mid-September, analysts say Three companies may have data before […]
Terrorism Can be Defeated Only by the Golden Rule and Not by Bullets or Tanks
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the […]
The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Making College Students Question the Price of Their Education
Source: WSJ When Mariah Stephenson received the bill for her fall semester at Towson University in Maryland, she did a double take. Even though fall sports have been suspended, she […]
CDC documents say states should prepare to distribute Covid-19 vaccines as soon as late October
(CNN) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told public health officials around the United States to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine as soon as late […]
A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the Christians and the Muslims closer
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful,for they will be shown mercy.Blessed are the pure in heart,for they will see God.Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called children of God. (Matthew […]
There’s a legitimate way to end coronavirus vaccine trials early, Fauci says
Source: CNN By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News, which is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) that is […]
Would you agree to have coronavirus squirted up your nose? All, of course, in the name of science
Challenge trials: The volunteers offering to be infected with coronavirus Source: BBC By Fergus Walsh, Medical editor There are plenty who would, and indeed are campaigning to be allowed to […]
Saint Augustine did build a bridge from Christian tradition to Islam!
Epigraph “We think that since God is the author both of his Word the Bible and of this universe, there must ultimately be harmony between correct interpretation of the biblical […]
Novavax Vaccine, PM Justin Trudeau and Canada Plan
Canada wants to be at ‘front of line’ for coronavirus vaccines, signs deals with Novavax and Johnson & Johnson Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau visits the National Research Council of Canada […]
The Vatican should speak up on China’s repression in Hong Kong and beyond
Source: Washington Post By George Weigel, who is a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon chair in Catholic studies, and the author of “The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission.” As the democratic world […]
A Scientist Explains How Meditation And Prayer Rewire Your Brain
By Carolyn Gregoire, Senior Health & Science Writer at The Huffington Post. Whether you see meditation or prayer as the gateway to enlightenment or just a way to stay more […]