Turkish German vaccine pioneers receive Germany’s highest award
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. One who saves a life it is as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) BY […]
Bestselling new book tells story of Europe’s forgotten Muslims
Source: Arab News “Minarets in the Mountains” highlights continent’s “indigenous Muslim heritage,” Hussain said It is among Amazon’s bestselling travel books on pre-sales alone. Book written by Tharik Hussain REVIEW […]
In Search of My Roots
From: Al Jazeera World A filmmaker goes on a road trip to explore her Spanish heritage and learn about Moriscos, Christian Spaniards of Muslim origin. When Spanish director Paula Palacios […]
Al Biruni: One of the Greatest Pioneers of Science
BBC audio 45 minutes above: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Central Asian polymath al-Biruni and his eleventh-century book the India.Born in around 973 in the central Asian region […]
Pfizer Partner BioNTech Ready to Boost Vaccine Capacity for 2021
Source: Bloomberg By Naomi Kresge; December 21, 2020, 6:03 PM EST Companies have projected 1.3 billion doses by end of 2021 BioNTech will test vaccine for response to strain seen in […]
Switzerland Grants Authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine
Source: Bloomberg By Nour Al Ali Swissmedic authorized Pfizer Inc.’s and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, the first approved for use in Switzerland. “The data available to date showed a comparable high […]
How modern mathematics emerged from a lost Islamic library
Source: BBC By By Adrienne Bernhard Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the library long since disappeared, its mathematical revolution changed our world. […]
Pfizer has sought emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccine in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, a top government health adviser said in a TV interview on Sunday, […]
Moncef Mohamed Slaoui: ‘Coronavirus vaccine czar’ for USA
Moncef Mohamed Slaoui[1] (English: /ˈmɒnsɪf ˈslaʊ.i/; French: [mɔ̃sɛf slawi]; Moroccan Arabic: منصف السلاوي, IPA: [ˈmonsˤəf ˈsːlæwi]; born July 22, 1959) is a Moroccan-born Belgian–American researcher and former head of GlaxoSmithKline‘s vaccines department.[2] He worked at the company for thirty years, retiring in 2017. On […]
How Islam Taught Medieval Christian Europe Religious and Political Tolerance
Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]
Archaeologists find 4500 bodies in ancient Islamic necropolis in Spain
Source: MSN and Daily Mail AMELIA WYNEArchaeologists in Spain have found 400 Muslim graves in an ancient Islamic necropolis. Experts discovered the 4,500 bodies in Tauste district earlier this month […]
The Origins of Vaccines – A Full Circle Story of Muslim Contributions
By Reehana Shah With more than 56 million cases worldwide and more than 1.3 million deaths, Covid-19 has held the world in a vise-like grip for almost a year now. […]
The Turkish Muslim Couple Behind the Pfizer Vaccine
Uğur Şahin (Turkish: [u.ˈuɾ ʃɑ.ˈhin]; born 1965 in Iskenderun, Turkey) is a Germanimmunologist and physician of Turkish descent[1][2]. He is a professor of oncology at the University of Mainz and the chief executive and co-founder with his wife, Özlem Türeci, of biotech company BioNTech.[3][4][5][6] He and his spouse […]
Al-Andalus revisited: Why the values of the Muslim golden age are more important now than ever before
BY FAISAL J. ABBAS FOR ARAB NEWS Faisal Abbas is the Editor in Chief of the Arab News The scenes of awful terrorist attacks on people in the streets of […]
‘A beacon of hope’: Sicily’s enduring North African heritage
Evident in its cuisine, places of worship, language and culture, this Italian island boasts Arab DNA By Stefania D’Ignoti in Catania, for Middle East Eye On a late summer evening […]
Islamic contributions varied from science to coffee
Source: Cape Breton Post By Dr Sheira Haq and Pushpa Rathore October is the month to celebrate Islamic heritage in Canada. In 2007, Parliament proclaimed October as the Canadian Islamic […]
Conquerors and Innovators: 7 of the Greatest Muslim Leaders and Commanders in History
Source: History Collection By Patrick Lynch Since the formation of Islam in the early 7th century AD, there have been countless battles involving commanders who fought to expand the religion […]
Oldest painting of Muslim mystic Haji Bektash Veli auctioned in Germany
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL ARTS OCT 25, 2020 The painting depicting Haji Bektash Veli with Sarı Saltuk Baba is 22 by 17 centimeters. (AA Photo) While Haji Bektash […]
Book Review: Stealing From The Saracens — How Islam built Europe
Book by Diana Darke, who is an author, Middle East cultural writer, Arabist and occasional BBC broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, […]
Prof. John Makdisi traces the Islamic Origins of the Common Law
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We can read John Makdisi’s magnum opus by ordering the North Carlina Law Review article from a Library or by […]