Source: Logos Robert Fisk’s Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) Reviewed by Matthew Abraham The name “Robert Fisk” has become synonymous […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page What the Media has Deliberately Concealed By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research, September 20, 2015 Global Research 31 January 2007 This article was first published by Global Research on January 31, 2007. “On […]
Source: Arab News IN this life people are usually aware of two kinds of journeys; those made to earn a livelihood and those undertaken for pleasure and sightseeing. The Haj […]
Istikharah: Seeking Allah’s guidance MARIAM ANWER | Published — Friday 26 August 2016 AT certain stages of life we often find ourselves at crossroads, impelled to make important decisions that would have huge impacts on our future. These decisions could be about choosing a career, getting married to someone, buying […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Monday 29 August 2016 JEDDAH: The Ministry of Health has embarked on its new campaign titled, “No vaccine, no Haj,” aimed at eradicating all infectious diseases that spread with the end of the Haj season. The ministry is implementing this campaign for the first time, […]
In a military prison in Damascus, a 34-year old Muslim who wanted to be an Islamist fighter breaks down in tears as he tells us how he lied to his wife. Another man tells me his life is so framed by war that his biggest fear is peace Robert Fisk […]
Aug 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI My affection and respect for my good friend and colleague from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with whom I discussed current events in the Middle East over a leisurely Lebanese lunch last week. We had very different analyses of how tensions […]
There is a lack of humanist studies in the universities of the Arab world, and an absence of the texts which flourished in the very golden age which Islamists so often proclaim Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 14 July 2016 Two good friends were telling me at dinner a few nights […]
AUGUST 25, 2016 Author: Lea Speyer A Jordanian prince and a Jewish academic are calling on Jews and Muslims to unite in religious tolerance to stop the spread of ISIS-perpetrated hatred against Christians in the Middle East. In an op-ed in the UK’s Telegraph on Tuesday, Prince Hassan of Jordan, founder and president […]
AUG. 24, 2016 Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign activists march to protest the demolition of the Palestinian village of Susiya in July 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: […]
SHEIKH MOKHTAR | Published — Thursday 18 August 2016 This is the concluding part of article on Haj. AS you near the miqat, your heart will tremble and tremor. Is this really happening? Is my heart getting closer and closer to His House? Soon you will enter Allah’s haram. It […]
SHEIKH MUHAMMED SALIH AL-MUNAJJID | Published — Thursday 18 August 2016 PRAISE be to Allah Who has created time and has made some times better than others, some months and days and nights better than others, when rewards are multiplied many times, as a mercy toward His slaves. This encourages […]
ARAB NEWS |Published — Thursday 25 August 2016 Muslim hajj pilgrims perform noon prayers at the Namira mosque near Mount Arafat, in this October 14, 2013 file photo. (AFP) MAKKAH: The weather in Makkah during the Haj season is predicted to be hot during the day and mild at […]
Chinese Haji pedals his way to Makkah ARAB NEWS | Published — Thursday 25 August 2016 Mohammed Bama Chun … journey of faith MAKKAH: Riding his bike for 8,150km, crossing several countries, a Chinese Haji has reached Makkah. Mohammed Bama Chun from Xinjiang took four months to reach Makkah […]
Aug 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Last week China declared its intention to become directly involved militarily in the Syrian conflict by dispatching advisers to aid the Syrian army. Beijing dispatched Rear Admiral Guan Youfei, head of China’s office for international military cooperation, to Damascus where he met […]
Aug 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB Colourful posters of smiling candidates are not new among election-related paraphernalia. But a certain orange-colour poster caught people’s attention because of the slogans it contained. One slogan read: “No to the exploitation of religion.” Another affirmed support “for a civilian state”. A […]
Aug 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GLADA LAHN The Syria crisis, which has displaced some 11.3 million people, has exposed the cracks in the conventional humanitarian relief system. And for neighbouring countries like Jordan that host the majority of refugees, it is widening pre-existing cracks in public service systems and […]
The Turks don’t want a Kurdish mini-state on their frontier any more than the Syrians want to lose territory to the Kurds Robert Fisk @indyvoices How the West would love […]
Sheikh Mokhtar Maghraoui | Published — Friday 12 August 2016 Haj in the Arabic language means aim, destination or purpose (qasd). The reason is clear: Haj is the ultimate journey of loving submission (ubudiyah) and conscious surrender (riq) to Allah. Its ultimate destination is your encounter with the House of […]
By AFP – Aug 23,2016 -JORDAN TIMES In this February 27, 2014, file photo, provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Centre, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man (right) runs for cover from a Syrian government forces air strike […]