Hagia Sophia: Shrine of 2 Empires
Source: Daily Sabah By Ihsan Aktas Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “If the earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.” Besides its geographical beauty and geostrategic position, Istanbul […]
Forget Putin, it’s meddling by America’s evangelical enforcer that should scare us
Source: The Guardian By Simon Tisdall US sheriff Mike Pompeo rode into town last week, telling whoppers as is his wont. The secretary of state – Donald Trump’s top enforcer […]
Sermons with swords part of Turkey’s tradition, head of Diyanet says
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL POLITICS JUL 24, 2020 Head of Diyanet Ali Erbaş delivers first sermon in the Hagia Sophia Grand mosque with a sword, July 24, 2020 (DHA Photo) Turkey’s […]
Erdoğan leads first prayers at Hagia Sophia museum reverted to mosque
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: The Guardian By Bethan McKernan in Istanbul Turkish president recites Qur’an at monument as Greece […]
Turkey: Hagia Sophia’s first Muslim Friday prayers draw thousands
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has opened for Muslim Friday prayers for the first time since the museum was changed back to a mosque. High profile guests joined the crowds of worshippers […]
Tony Blair: Coronavirus will not be eliminated and we must learn to live with it
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: ITV Coronavirus will not be eliminated and Britons must learn to live […]
Netflix reality hit Indian Matchmaking tells some dark truths about life in my community
Colourism and sexism are found in every single episode, and with no LGBT or Muslim couple portrayed, it’s hardly representative of modern India either. But that’s no reason to write […]
Nuns: powerful women of the Middle Ages
Source: Swiss Info By Julie Hunt The Middle Ages were a rough time for women. They were considered inferior to men, and very few were educated. Convents offered them opportunities that […]
Swiss humanitarian trade deal with Iran faces delay, questions
Swiss “good offices” between Tehran and Washington have brought about a humanitarian aid channel allowing Swiss-based companies to send medicines and other vital goods to Iran despite US […]
There’s a hidden epidemic of racism in UK schools – but it’s finally coming to light
Source: The Guardian By Aditaya Chakrbborti A grieving teenager is exposing the grinding reality of everyday discrimination, and the results could be transformative The two biggest stories this year are […]
Historians urge Home Office to correct slavery information in citizenship test
Vincent Wood 9 hrs ago © Provided by The Independent More than 180 historians have urged the government to review its citizenship test – arguing it glosses over colonialism, overlooks the role […]
Hagia Sophia’s mosque conversion has Swiss fallout
History & Religion The Turkish government’s decision to revoke museum status of Istanbul’s most famous building, the Hagia Sophia, could cost a faraway Swiss company a lucrative contract, Turkish media […]
Special Interview with Ahmad Salam, Founding Director of Islamic Bank of Britain: Capitalism, Global Crisis, and the Moral Reckoning: Are we Ready to Take the Pain?
The Review of Religions conducted an interview with Ahmad Salam, a career investment banker with 25 years of experience in debt capital markets and investment banking and founding director of the Islamic Bank of Britain, on the subject of the Coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the global economy. He developed an […]
A view from Turkey: The purpose of the anti-Turkish campaign
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH BY BURHANETTIN DURAN The effective steps Turkey has taken to fill the deepening power vacuum in its region have hurt the interests of many foreign governments. Those […]
Shamima Begum’s successful appeal signals hope for other European Isis suspects held in Syrian camps
Despite dire conditions in northeast Syria’s camps, most countries, including the UK, have brought home only small numbers of their citizens, usually orphans or young children, says Letta Tayler 22 hours ago ABC […]
Middle Eastern website describes Newcastle as a ‘remote tribal community’ worse than Yemen and says Geordies have a ‘well-documented penchant for violence’, as Saudi prince launches takeover of the city’s football team
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page A Middle Eastern website published an opinion piece criticising Newcastle The […]
Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?
A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN NOVEMBER 15, 2017 A BOLSHEVIK […]
Tracing Ottoman architecture through works converted into churches
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL ARTS JUL 17, 2020 2:39 PM GMT+3 Mehmed Pasha Mosque, built by Mimar Sinan in Sofia and later turned into a church, is seen in this photo dated […]
Salman Rushdie survived an actual fatwa. Yet he still thinks the Twitter crowd has gone too far
Jacqueline Maley Columnist and senior journalist July 12, 2020 — Salman Rushdie knows a thing or two about fatwas – on Valentine’s Day in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s […]
Don’t be misled by today’s unemployment figures – a hurricane of job losses is coming
We can reasonably expect the number of people in the UK out of work to rise to between three and four million – a far graver toll, at the upper […]