Huff Post: by Elizabet Nicholas — While opposition to burqas might seem like an obvious position for feminists, the ban can have negative practical and psychological implications for Muslim women. The sad irony of a ban meant to give women a voice is that the ban makes them choose between […]
Huff Post: by Elizabet Nicholas — While opposition to burqas might seem like an obvious position for feminists, the ban can have negative practical and psychological implications for Muslim women. The sad irony of a ban meant to give women a voice is that the ban makes them choose between […]
By Mudar Zahran – Gatestone Institute …………………………….. The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one of the items at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Almost every known Arab political organization has […]
Michael Barry, the Patti Cadby Birch Consultative Chairman, Department of Islamic Art, MMA, presents this examination of the mysterious central figure in one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgiones “Three Philosophers” (Venice, 1504). The discussion of this work, which is now in the Kunsthistoriches Museum in […]
The 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan famously stated in a piece in the New York Times in 1993, “May I offer you the advice of the 14th […]
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek and Roman past and […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Craig Considine: Ph.D. candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Film director, ‘Journey into America’; Interfaith activist In his recent article, Sam Harris, a popular critic of Islam, referred to […]
Source: The National By: Hugo Berger | September 19, 2013 An exhibition into the time when Arabic scientific knowledge surpassed the rest of the world is starting next week at the […]
By Zakaria Virk, Toronto According to traditional western writers, all science and civilization is derived from Greek heritage i.e. 6th centry BC to 2nd century AD. This heritage was lost during the Dark Ages i.e. 5-15th century AD, recovered during the European Renaissance -15-16th centuries, and revived for our modern […]
111 Muslim Scientists, old and New by Zakaria Virk This Urdu book describes in detail life, works, scientific achievements, contributions of 42 medieval scientists. In the second half 69 contemporary […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There are about 750 verses in Quran urging Muslims to make use of reason to understand nature and […]
Persistent rumours suggest Hagia Sophia will be turned into a mosque Istanbul (AsiaNews) – Increasingly, rumours are circulating about the future transformation of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia into a […]
islamfoundingfathers.wordpress.com: This is certainly an intriguing question and one which Alexandra Meav Jerome considers in a piece for Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Jerome writes: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution contain similar clauses on some topics. The Constitution of Medina states: “The Jews shall maintain their own religion and the […]
The Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain last May. With tears in his […]
Coffee About 1,600,000,000 cups of coffee are consumed every day around the world. Billions of people rely on it as part of their daily routines. And yet, very few people […]
Text from NY Times The following is a text of President Obama’s prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House. I […]
On June 28, 2013 after graduating from Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Residency program, Dr. Tahir Ahmad Khan became the first and only physician and surgeon in the Nation to hold a Bachelors of Science (BS), Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM), Doctor of Medicine (MD,Magna Cum Laude), Master in Public Health […]
Ibn Khaldun: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Statue of Ibn Khaldun in Tunis Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Ḥaḍrami, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, […]