See a Pictorial Fulfillment of a Prophecy From the Time of Patriarch Abraham
Epigraph: And remember the time when We assigned to Abraham the site of the House and said, ‘Associate not anything with Me, and keep My House clean for those who […]
More than 2 million pilgrims complete journey to Mount Arafat for second day of Hajj
Source: Arab News 1 / 16 Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal Al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Saudi holy city of Makkah, as the […]
Economic System And Islam
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The Islamic school that ensures its boys understand the Israeli point of view
Source: The Guardian BY Helen Pidd Muslim pupils at Abrar academy in Preston, Lancashire, have been debating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian More than 550,000 students […]
Non-Sectarian Islam: The Proportionate Faith
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslim Times is the Mecca for interfaith tolerance and non-sectarian understanding of Islam. Almost every sect […]
Chinese Surveillance Expands to Muslims Making Mecca Pilgrimage
Source: Wall Street Journal By Eva Dou July 31, 2018 10:01 a.m. ET BEIJING—China’s close watch over its Islamic minority is being extended abroad, as Muslims from some Chinese regions […]
Muslims in China’s ‘Little Mecca’ fear eradication of Islam
Source: Dawn News Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China’s “Little Mecca”, but they have undergone a profound change — no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards […]
IMAGINING THE ARABS: ARAB IDENTITY AND THE RISE OF ISLAM BY PETER WEBB
Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam by Peter Webb Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs’ role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of pre-Islamic evidence […]
Abdur Rahman I: The beginning of the glory of Muslim Spain
Source: Daily Times By Akbar Ahmed, who is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, Washington, DC, and author of Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity Let […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Macedonia organised Iftar and Tabligh Meeting
By Zubair Khan This time it was the city of Kumonov of Macedonia where AMJ Macedonia organized the tabligh meeting followed by Iftar Dinner. In spite being the first attempt in this city, congested by Albanian ethnic Muslims, the event proved to be a great success. Above 200 guests turned […]
Education of Muslim women is limited by economic conditions, not religion
Pew Research: Muslim societies have sometimes faced criticism for failing to adequately educate women. Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai have contributed to this perception, raising the question of whether Islam itself hampers women’s education. But a new analysis of Pew Research Center data on educational attainment and […]
Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
Unveiling Judicial Neutrality: Do Headscarves belong in German Courtrooms?
ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk: In 2015, the FCC declared a general headscarf ban for teachers in public schools unconstitutional and held that the mere wearing of a headscarf on behalf of a State official (a teacher in that case) does not jeopardise the neutrality of the state. Yet, the FCC, justifying its recent rejection of […]
Ed Husain: from Islamist radical … to champion of liberal Muslims
Guardian: The house of Islam is on fire and its Muslim arsonists must be expelled. So comes the provocation from Ed Husain, self-proclaimed former Islamist radical, who puts much of the blame for Isis, Syria, Hamas and beyond on Saudi-sponsored Salafism and the export of Wahhabism across the world. “We can’t blame the […]
US liberal Islamophobia is rising – and more insidious than rightwing bigotry
Guardian: When will Muslims step up and reform Islam?” asked the self-identified “progressive and intersectional” college student, following a presentation of my book, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, at New York University. The student wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and a colorful assortment of pins and […]
Anti-Islam Movement Has New Rallying Cry — Let’s Delete Verses of the Quran
Source: The Intercept By Mehdi Hasan, who is a Columnist, The Intercept. Contributing Editor, New Statesman. Host, Al Jazeera English. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. YOU THINK LIFE is bad for […]
Is Islam exceptional? And what does it mean for the future of Western democracy?
brookings.edu: In his book “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World”, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Shadi Hamid argues that Islam is exceptional in how it relates to law, governance and politics, and plays an outsized role in public life in the Arab world. He also posits that […]
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)
by Johan Elverskog: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also […]
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreaking volume, Islam flourished […]
Here’s a solution to Britain’s gambling problem – nationalise the industry- (No, Really?)
Epilogue: Islam banned gambling and alcohol 1400 years back. The Qur’an, the Muslim Holy Book, speaks of these quite clearly and prohibits them. Modern civilization is only coming to learn […]