Answers to Anti-Islam

Some of the earliest capitalist innovations in Italy—like rules on issuing credit—were imported from the Abbasid caliphate

The Economist: Capitalism through the ages A grand tour Experts look back at the economic system that dominates the Western world  The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williamson.Cambridge University Press; 1,400 pages; £150. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ECONOMICS publishing has recently undergone a great democratisation. […]

Let Islamic Reform Start in America

WSJ: ‘Muslim communities in the West,” wrote Graham Fuller and Ian Lesser in 1995 (“The Geopolitics of Islam and the West”), “are more likely to exert influence on their countries and cultures of origin rather than receive influences from them; over time they may have a substantive effect on the perceptions […]

Islam and hadiths: Sifting and combing

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 […]

The Tunisian election result isn’t simply a victory for secularism over Islamism

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 […]

Liberia: Ahmadiyya Muslim-UK, Clinton Health Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among donors in Ebola fight

Ahmadiyya Times: Philanthropic institutions, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ahmadiyya Muslim of UK, amongst others, that have also contributed Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int’l Desk Source/Credit: Liberian Observer By Liberian Observer | October 21, 2014 Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has provided […]