Economist: IN GREAT spiritual traditions, followers are often presented with two distinct phenomena: a supreme moment of divine revelation, and a tradition spanning many centuries in which teachers or clerics have distilled the contents of that revelation and delivered it to their contemporaries. Most people think of Islam, especially in […]
Guardian: A self-styled, secular, modernist party called Nidaa Tounes won against the Islamist Ennahda party in the Tunisian election this week. For many, the subsequent headline – “Secularist party wins Tunisia elections” – will seem more impressive than the fact Tunisia just completed its second genuinely competitive, peaceful elections since […]
LONDON, October 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Western Europe’s largest mosque to host historic symposium A worldwide Islamic Caliph (Khalifa) is to deliver a keynote address at the 11th National Peace […]
Huff Post: Popeular Science Pope Francis has views on science … that are not as revolutionary as you might believe.Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images On Monday, Pope Francis was speaking […]
NJ.com: PRINCETON — On October 17, over 130 people, including dozens of professors and students, attended a special academic discussion held in Princeton about religious extremism in Pakistan. The event, moderated by Princeton Professor of Economics Dr. Atif Mian, included two distinguished panelists: Pakistani journalist and commentator Raza Rumi and […]
Reuters VATICAN CITY – Scientific theories including the “Big Bang” believed to have brought the universe into being 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed through a process of evolution do not conflict with Catholic teaching, Pope Francis said on Tuesday. Addressing a meeting of the Pontificial […]
kashifmd.com: Let us start with how a typical conversation with a new atheist goes on who a true Muslim is. ISIS: “Peaceful Muslims (eg Malala, or the majority of Muslims, including all Ahmadis) are not true Muslims.” New Atheists: “Yes!! Ahmadis are non-Muslim heretics/bad Muslims/”nominal” Muslims. Malala is also a […]
Washington Post: By Rachid Ghannouchi October 24 Rachid Ghannouchi is founder and chairman of Tunisia’s Ennahda party. As Tunisia prepares to hold its second free and fair election on Sunday […]
Alislam-egazette: Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: “True Khilafat is Spiritual Leadership and Has No Interest in Power or Government” On Saturday 13 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
By Asif Arif Huff Post: The day throughout Pakistan should celebrate with pride and joy the 88th anniversary of the first Muslim Nobel prize in physics, how not to write a […]
Guardian: From the 9th to the 19th centuries, scholars and scribes used Arabic as a lingua franca to debate scientific ideas. Arabic-speaking scholars translated classical Greek, Persian and even Sanskrit […]
gbcghana.com: The Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Alhaji Mohammed Bin-Salih has called for greater discipline and cooperation among Ghanaians particularly the Ahmadis to build a progressive society.According to him without discipline, it is difficult for any community to succeed in its transformation […]
Published on Sep 8, 2014 http://www.alislam.org Documentary about Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad A video capturing the essence of the efforts for global peace by the 5th successor of Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
the new republic: During a recent episode of HBO’s “Real Time” on HBO, host Bill Maher mocked President Obama’s insistence that the Islamic State does not represent Islam, and lambasted […]
Posted by Abdul Alim Posted by Salma Javid Khan Famous Russian author Count Leo Tolstoy read the English translation ofThe Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam, by the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, […]
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan 288pp, Heinemann, £17.99 Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American writer, a Shia by persuasion, and informs us […]
sfchronicle.com: Thursday, advertisements appeared on San Francisco Muni buses depicting Islam as evil and claiming that devout followers of the faith are bound to be violent. This proclamation is utterly false and an attempt to manipulate the public with Islamophobic vitriol to address the very serious threat posed by the […]
soas.ac.uk: The case of Zaheer-ud-din v. The State and its impact on the fundamental right to freedom of religion by Martin Lau I. Introduction The decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case of Zaheer-ud-din v. The State 1993 SCMR 1718 can be regarded as the the most important judgement of a […]
SARAH is a proud Anglo blue-eyed Australian woman. She’s also a proud Aboriginal and a Muslim. But while her journey to Islam took three years, her message for those who see her story is shorter — she is still the same person she was then, the only difference is she […]