Fertile African lands colonisers stole from indigenous communities
by Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, at 07:00 am, December 07, 2018 By the 15th century, the Europeans were well established in Africa and started to take the lands from […]
Is India waging a ‘war’ on Islamic names?
Soutik Biswas India correspondent 13 November 2018 The northern Indian city of Allahabad has been renamed Prayagraj What’s in a name? For India’s cities and villages, seemingly plenty. More […]
Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
Source: Time By STEVEN WOODBRIDGE, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY / THE CONVERSATION Just over a week after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, a letter appeared in the Richmond Herald — a […]
We should all be wearing a Khadi poppy today to commemorate the thousands of Indian soldiers who fought in WWI
The scale and significance of the British Indian Army cannot be underestimated – their sacrifice helped sow the seeds for a peace and harmony that we enjoy today and must […]
The true face of Islam won’t be found in mosques or Muslim schools, but at the British Museum
There, the new Islamic gallery, dazzles visitors and defies every certainty promoted by today’s hardline Muslim activists Ed Husain Right, a page from the Hamzanama, c.1558-73, depicting Elijah rescuing Amir […]
Excavation Of Lithuania’s Great Synagogue Highlights A ‘Painful Page’ From History
Source: NPR For decades, the principals at a boxy, two-story kindergarten in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, unwittingly pored over their lesson plans just a few feet above one of the […]
Enormous, rare Viking ship burial discovered by radar
Source: National Geographic By Andrew Curry Archaeologists in Norway using ground-penetrating radar have detected one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND the outlines of a […]
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by: Charles Burnett When a sixteenth-century medical […]
Outstanding Muslim Women’s Contribution to Islamic Civilisation
Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics 20216. by: Salim Al-Hassani While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and […]
This Black History Month, let’s teach young people how slavery interrupted a rich and powerful black history
Our young people should be taught about the horrors of the slave trade so that we never forget, but they also need to understand that their ancestors came from some […]
DIPLOMACY: Wettstein – the first Swiss diplomat had the city of Basel in mind
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 Johann Rudolf Wettstein (1594-1666) was the only Swiss envoy at the peace conference of Westphalia ending a major 17th religious […]
Humans may have wiped out largest birds
Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived? Source: BBC News By Helen Briggs Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived after […]
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, […]
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
Source: The New York Times By Sharon Otterman Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem around 125th Street is now lined with artisanal French restaurants, wood-fired pizza joints and brunch places serving […]
Munich replaces ‘disrespectful’ Holocaust memorials
Source: BBC News The authorities in Munich have begun installing new Holocaust memorials to replace brass cobblestone reminders of the Nazis’ victims. The cobblestones are considered disrespectful by Bavarian Jewish […]
The intriguing history of the ‘Black Madonna’
Source: BBC News By Alastair Sooke 19 July 2018 Most people coming face to face for the first time with Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck’s 16th-Century oil painting of the […]
Muslim markers in Sri Lanka: Changes and challenges
/ Wednesday, 20 June 2018 If we exclude from our consideration the wars that owe their origin to religious hatred, or to difference in fundamental principles, such as the struggle […]
The shocking story of Israel’s disappeared babies
Source: Al Jazeera News Tel Aviv – For nearly 40 years, everything about Gil Grunbaum’s life was a lie, including his name. He was not, as he had always assumed, the […]
Iran’s ancient engineering marvel
Source: BBC News By Joobin Bekhrad 20 June 2018 What on Earth are those? I thought to myself shortly before landing in the Iranian city of Esfahan one summer. From the […]
Manuscript Review: The Catalogue (Al Fihrist), by Al-Nadim
By: N.A. Baloch AL-FIHRIST is to be regarded the first standard subject-wise ‘catalogue’ covering all areas of knowledge… Figure 1. Ibn al-Nadim ابن النديم الفهرست Muslim Masterminds (Source) *** Editor’s Note: The […]
