How can we build the Third Temple together?
Source: Muslim Sunrise Spring 2017 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In a recent interview President Trump said about his son in law, […]
Audio: This Islamic school teaches how to be Muslim, and American
Source: NPR By TOM GJELTEN Like any good fifth-grade teacher, Mike Matthews wants to make his social studies unit on the American West as exciting as possible. So he’s planning […]
We could learn from President Carter – ‘Who is a Muslim?’
President Carter, Am I a Christian? Source: The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times’ columnist on human rights, women’s rights, health, global affairs Christians celebrate Easter on […]
The cooling of Donald Trump’s Islamo-scepticism
Source: The Economist THESE are confusing times for any student of global religion and geopolitics. This weekend around 2bn Christians mark the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This happens to […]
Black Muslims aim for unity in challenging time for Islam
Source: Associated Press By JEFF KAROUB, SOPHIA TAREEN and NOREEN NASIR DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — In her job as a refugee case manager, Fatimah Farooq would come to work in […]
Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics
Source: Muslim Heritage By Salim Al-Hassani While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and literature and there are also studies on Muslim women in […]
New Volume of the Muslim Sunrise: Houses of God: Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple
Editorial of Spring 2017 Volume By Mubasher Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief A synagogue, church, mosque or temple – a house of God is a sacred place for co-religious congregations to gather and […]
Adhan – The Call to Prayer
February 2017 Maulana Ataul Mujeeb Rashed – UK “حَيَّ عَلَى الْفَلاح” “حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلاة” “O ye people, hasten to join the [congregational] prayer! Hasten because this is the real and […]
Pope to meet with UK imams in bid to promote moderate Islam
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is scheduled to meet Wednesday with four British imams two weeks after the London extremist attack, part of […]
Sufism, the mystical practice of Islam, takes root in the City of Angels
Source: Religion News Service By Priyadarshini Sen LOS ANGELES (RNS) The rhythmic chanting of 15 “beloveds,” as they call themselves, ripples across a prayer room in a family home in […]
YOU SHOULDN’T BLAME ISLAM FOR TERRORISM. RELIGION ISN’T A CRUCIAL FACTOR IN ATTACKS.
Source: The Intercept By Mehdi Hasan What do you think of when you hear the word “terrorist”? Big beards and brown skins? Turban-wearing Muslim migrants from the Middle East? Refugees maybe? […]
A building and a book highlight an odd symbiosis between monotheistic faiths
Source: The Economist Muslims, Christians and JesusA building and a book highlight an odd symbiosis between monotheistic faiths A new theory about the Abrahamic faiths OVER the centuries, the Abrahamic […]
Are converts to Islam more likely to become extremists?
Source: The Conversation The process of conversion to any religion is best thought of as a journey, and this is how it is often described to others by those who […]
The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
Source: The Guardian By Arwa Mahdawi It happened in history class. Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student at the University of Colorado, was supposed to be discussing the Crusades with […]
A couple is suing Georgia to name their daughter Allah
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk March 26 (Superior Court of Fulton County) The baby’s first name posed no issue: ZalyKha. Georgia law could handle that. Her parents had to stack […]
Paradise on Earth
by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) The Review of Religions, January 1997 Translated by Amatul-Hadi Ahmad On the evening of 16 August 1902, after the evening prayer, the Promised Messiah (as), as was his practice, sat down with his companions, for general conversation and discussion. Someone presented him with a […]
Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: Islam – Homicide And Bodily Harm ( Jinayat)
Pre-Islamic Arabia treated attacks against one’s tribesman as an attack on the tribe itself. Such an attack could result in a blood feud between the two tribes where any member of the other tribe was an object of vengeance. Through arbitration, justice could sometimes be secured by retaliation against the […]
CNN: The world’s fastest growing religion? Islam
Learn more about the world’s most fascinating faiths on CNN’s “Believer with Reza Aslan,” Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. (CNN) Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion – and […]
EU headscarf ban ruling sparks faith group backlash
Source: Reuters By Alastair Macdonald | BRUSSELS Companies may ban staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visible religious symbols under certain conditions, the European Union’s top court ruled on […]
Video: Richard Dawkins on How Humans Face Death
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University […]