source:time maazine.com Although he did not know it at the time, when a jurist from Tangier named Ibn Battuta left his home in 1325, he was commencing 29 years of travel, visiting everywhere from the Sahara to the China coast. Yet wherever he went, Ibn Battuta found one constant: the […]
By SHEYMA BUALI, LIFE.SYLLE@ARABNEWS.COM London’s three-week long Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture opened on Monday on a strong note from Tamer Abou Ghazaleh, Zeid Hamdan and Maryam Saleh, performing together for the first time in Europe. The first week of Shubbak sped by with music, history, film and literature […]
Since the publication of legal scholar John Makdisi’s ‘The Islamic Origins of the Common Law’ in the North Carolina Law Review, there has been controversy over whether English common law […]
Source: Ikhwan Web The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on its website, in a grave violation of UN Security Council Resolutions which consider East Jerusalem Occupied TheMuslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the […]
The common idea that western civilization originates in Greece was born twice. Its last birth took place in the eighteenth century, before the social science had been created and before the richness of our Mesopotamian heritage had been discovered. The time has come to investigate the roots of western civilization […]
History – Early Muslim Ties with China Islam was introduced to China as early as the 7th century (during the Tang Dynasty) when merchants from Arabia and Persia came to China to trade via the Silk Road. In AD.651, the third Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan, sent an envoy to call on the reigning […]
Andrew J. Mogensen, Valparaiso University The prominence of geography in Muslim scholarship—and perhaps even the existence of a distinct field of Muslim geography—stems from two factors: 1) the fact that Islam itself is concerned with proper cardinal directions and 2) that trade with distant lands demanded accurate maps or descriptions. […]
ACRE, Israel (AP) — Off the track beaten by most Holy Land tourists lies one of the richest archaeological sites in a country full of them: the walled port of Acre, where the busy alleys of an Ottoman-era town cover a uniquely intact Crusader city now being rediscovered. Preparing to […]
Monday, 20 June 2011 The BBC is to trace the journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad for a new series which is claimed to be a first for British television. Al Jazeera reporter Rageh Omaar will present the three-part programme for BBC2, following in the prophet’s footsteps from Mecca and along the journeys he took […]
Hailing from countries as varied as Togo and Sri Lanka, Poland and the Dominican Republic, immigrant students made their mark among The City University of New York’s Class of 2011, winning competitive academic honors and heading for some of the finest graduate programs in the world. High-achieving immigrants graduating from […]
A forum on the status of Islam in the West will be held by Cultural-Social Center of Paris on June 25. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The program has been organized in the form of three sessions. The first session will be held with the presence of Al-‘Arabi Kashat, head of the center and […]
DOHA: The Qatar Foundation Central Library (QFCL) will open by the middle of next year with an immense collection of print and digital books on varies subjects, reported an Arabic daily yesterday. The library is one of the major projects of the Qatar Foundation will be a 45,000 square-metre building […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: On behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, Prince Naif, second deputy premier and minister of interior, inaugurated a scientific forum for Haj research, which is attended by nearly 1,000 speakers, experts and delegates. Prince Naif commended the efforts of King Abdullah to […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Work is under way to establish the first global Islamic historical encyclopedia of its kind on the Haj, Makkah, the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. Involved in the preparation of the encyclopedia are Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Haj Research […]
TO the present-day Muslim masses, the West mainly signifies indecency, materialism and an insatiable hunger for global political dominance. This perception is largely based on prejudices caused by a lack of adequate and credible information regarding different western societies. It is true that certain western moral norms are unlike ours; […]
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-768956312207897325&hl=nl&fs=true Direct link | larger screen option Use this special contents page to navigate through 100 minutes of fascinating history. The Islamic roots of Modern civilisation and the construction of European identity In this BBC documentary, English historian Bettany Hughes examines the Muslim contribution to the formation of modern Europe. She also […]
By Bunmi Ajiboye June 17, 2011 The Republic of Mali is one of the countries in West Africa which offers sublime tourist destinations. This once French-colonised country is bordered by Algeria, Niger, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mauritania. The capital city is Bamako and the country gained independence […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Three Saudi engineers attending the Haj Research Forum in Makkah have called for expanding the mataf, the area surrounding the Holy Kaaba, in order to accommodate more worshippers. Abdul Haleem Khouj, head of the team that made the proposal, said it would […]
In 1326, Ibn Battuta completed his first pilgrimage to Mecca. But instead of returning home, he decided to see as many parts of Dar al-Islam as possible, vowing never to travel the same road twice. In the end, he traveled more than 75,000 miles, down the east coast of Africa […]
Here begins Ibn Battuta’s travels p. 43 I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab 725 [June 14, 1325], being at that time twenty-two years of age [22 lunar years; 21 and 4 months by solar reckoning], with the intention of making the Pilgrimage to the Holy House [at […]