‘Gothic’ architects brought Islamic world to Europe
Source: Arab News Early Syrian churches, notably the 5th century Qalb Lozeh in Idlib, used many features that were replicated at Notre-Dame. The Muslim Times has the best collection for […]
Who’s Afraid of Arabic Numerals?
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: New York Times Before there was a Western civilization, there was Islamic civilization. By […]
From Pink Mosque to Turkish rooms: Traces of Ottoman influence in European architecture
Source: Daily Sabah By ALİ TÜFEKÇİ; ISTANBUL; Arts The 18th century was a period of great acculturation between the Orient and the West. The first thing that came to mind […]
Why did King Henry II Threaten to join Islam: BBC
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Posted by Dr. H. Koya King Henry II: the Muslim monarch of medieval England? Source: […]
What can Avicenna teach us in time of Coronavirus?
Source: Al Jazeera By Hamid Dabashi, who is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Every day at 7pm in New York, we come […]
2,500 rare texts from Islamic world to go online for free
Source: The Guardian National Library of Israel is digitising collection of manuscripts and books dating back to ninth century By Dalya Alberge More than 2,500 rare manuscripts and books from […]
The history of Muslim rule in India
SOURCE: NAWAIWAQT GROUP By Masud Ahmad Khan: The writer is a retired brigadier and freelance columnist. According to Khushwant Singh, Arab traders brought Islam to India to the west coast […]
Istanbul: Reclamation works in Hagia Sophia Fatih Madrasah reach final stage
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH In Madrasah of Hagia Sophia, where Sultan Mehmed II performed the first Friday prayer after the conquest of Istanbul, which opened the doors of a new era, […]
Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress
Source: smithsonianmag.com Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy intellectual from West Africa, wrote about his capture […]
Spain to End Quarantine Requirement for Foreign Travelers July 1
Source: Bloomberg By Rodrigo Orihuela Spain will stop enforcing mandatory quarantine for foreign tourists from July 1, as the country prepares to reboot its key tourism industry. The decision was […]
Early African Muslims had cosmopolitan, halal diet, shows discovery of thousands of ancient animal bones
Source: Phys.Org Early Muslim communities in Africa ate a cosmopolitan diet as the region became a trading center for luxury goods, the discovery of thousands of ancient animal bones has shown. Halal butchery practices became common when Islam spread through Ethiopia as vibrant communities developed because of the import and […]
How Saudi Arabia’s King Fahad National Library is preserving Islamic history for posterity
Source: Arab News RIYADH: The big truth about history is that it inevitably fades into the past, but history can also be captured and preserved for posterity. In fact, it […]
Why did King Henry II Threaten to join Islam: BBC
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A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to the Pew Research Center in 2015 there were 50 Muslim-majority countries. Are we able to make […]
The Movie ‘The Physician’ and the Muslim Heritage
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32) The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical […]
BBC: Recreating Muslim sailors’ first voyages to Australia
Additional reading suggested by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, to see the silver lining and a message of hope Germany officially recognizes ‘InshAllah’ as Deutsch word In […]
Is Isaac Newton a Part of the Muslim Heritage: His Religious Views?
Alexander Pope‘s couplet: “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in Night. God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light!” Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
The Ottoman Empire: 600 Years of Domination
Source: Ancient Origins 16 February, 2020 – The Ottoman Empire was one of history’s largest and longest-lasting empires. It was founded around the end of the 13th / beginning of […]
How Bosnia’s Muslims helped build the Ottoman Empire’s Hejaz Railway
Source: TRT World By Hamza Karcic Bosnian Muslims living outside the Ottoman Empire financially supported Sultan Abdulhamid II’s ambitious Hejaz railway project. On 1 September 1900, the construction of a […]
The Movie ‘The Physician’ and the Muslim Heritage
The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical drama film based on the novel of the same name by Noah Gordon.[3] The film, co-written and directed by Philipp Stölzl, focuses on an orphan from an 11th-century English […]