APPublished April 13, 2021 Muslims began marking Ramazan with communal prayers on Tuesday in a socially distanced contrast to the empty mosques of a year ago when the holy month coincided […]
9th April 2021 Islamabad, Tilford, 9 April 2021: In the Friday Sermon today, Hazrat Amirul Momineenaa announced the launch of a new Quran website search engine created by the alislam.org team. The new […]
MAGAZINE: EDITION NOVEMBER 2020 Sayed Hameedullah Nusrat Pasha Divine Guidance – The Qur’anic Perspective 24th January 2021 The concept of ‘divine guidance’ is fundamentally a theological one, presented by most […]
History Textbook West African Senior School Certificate Examination Introduction Authors Online resources The Book For Teachers Quiz Testimonials Funders af 3: Islam in West Africa. Introduction, spread and effects Please […]
Mubariz Mahmood, Zartasht Sami Carmichael 20th May 2020 Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Qur’an, ‘O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed […]
Source: The Khaleej Times Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture facilitating residents online amid restrictions. The Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture of the Islamic Affairs and Charitable […]
My ‘way to Islam’ was already published in the article ‘Glimpses into the life of a global nomad part one’ (see: https://themuslimtimes.info/2017/08/15/glimpses-into-the-life-of-a-global-nomad-part-one/ ). In this time and age the article […]
21st October 2019 The Promised Messiah(as), Imam Mahdi (Guided One), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad(as) Always keep the principle in mind that the task of a believer is to feel embarrassed […]
Source: New York Times By Hussein Rashid, Negin Farsad and Joshua Seftel Muslims arrived with Columbus and have been leaving their mark on American culture and society ever since. Did […]
Source: CT They warn any changes in that stance ‘will create major problems for many of us, both here and in the wider [Anglican] Communion’, declaring that ‘recent history tragically demonstrates that introducing changes in teaching and liturgy has consistently divided Anglicans globally and within provinces’. The letter has been […]
indiaspend.com: Mumbai: In July 2018, when the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) announced its intention to expand a little-known 25-year-old network of around 50 darul qazas (counselling centres based on the teachings of sharia or Islamic law) to every Indian district, right-wing Hindu commentators were outraged. Meenakshi Lekhi, a Bharatiya Janata […]
Source: Daily Times By Akbar Ahmed, who is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, Washington, DC, and author of Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity Let […]
Pew Research: Muslim societies have sometimes faced criticism for failing to adequately educate women. Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai have contributed to this perception, raising the question of whether Islam itself hampers women’s education. But a new analysis of Pew Research Center data on educational attainment and […]
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk: In 2015, the FCC declared a general headscarf ban for teachers in public schools unconstitutional and held that the mere wearing of a headscarf on behalf of a State official (a teacher in that case) does not jeopardise the neutrality of the state. Yet, the FCC, justifying its recent rejection of […]
Source: Iceland Monitor The Zuist society, founded in 2016 now wish to build a temple in Reykjavik. Leader Águst Arnar Ágústsson says it’s been his dream to build a temple […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad A. Nasir, Masjid Mahmood Call Office: 248 293 0072 | Mobile: 909-636-8332 Email: shamshadanasir@gmail.com By the Grace of God, the Muslim world has entered the Holy […]
brookings.edu: In his book “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World”, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Shadi Hamid argues that Islam is exceptional in how it relates to law, governance and politics, and plays an outsized role in public life in the Arab world. He also posits that […]
Guardian: For decades, Haifa has been Israel’s model of what a ‘mixed’ Jewish-Arab city could be. But as the country’s 70th anniversary nears, the strain is showing. Haifa is Israel’s third largest city – and its biggest ‘mixed’ one. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Ben-Gurion Boulevard climbs from the bustling port […]
Epilogue: Islam banned gambling and alcohol 1400 years back. The Qur’an, the Muslim Holy Book, speaks of these quite clearly and prohibits them. Modern civilization is only coming to learn […]
