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Muslim migrants around the world

ByStephanie KramerandYunping Tong Who are migrants? Roughly 80 million international migrants are Muslim, representing 29% of all people living outside their country of birth. By comparison, Muslims were about 25% of the world’s total population in 2020, making Muslim identity a little more common among migrants than in the overall […]

The Ahmadiyya in Ghana (West Africa): Local Initiatives in a Trans-National Muslim Movement

John Hanson | Final Conference of the Gerda Henkel Foundation Special Programme “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements” The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a transnational missionary movement with origins in late 19th century British India and a global contemporary presence. In the 1920s, the Ahmadiyya established a mission […]

The Air of History Part III: The Golden Age in Arab Islamic Medicine An Introduction

editorial Heart Views . 2013 Jan-Mar;14(1):43–46. doi: 10.4103/1995-705X.107125 The Air of History Part III: The Golden Age in Arab Islamic Medicine An Introduction Rachel Hajar 1,✉ PMCID: PMC3621228  PMID: 23580929 The contributions of Islamic scientists in the various fields of knowledge from the 8th to the 16thcenturies were astonishing. After the 16th century, however, the Islamic world […]