Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam. This is an ongoing, evolving diagram which we hope to add to. So please send us your ideas & corrections. Thanks to Imran Ali, Andrzej Mendel, Farshad Tami, Sajjad for corrections. […]
Immigration: To be or not to be
The great immigration debate has to become the great rethinking and restructuring debate. Charlie Brown is right when he says: “No problem is too big and complicated that it can’t be run away from.” In both the US and EU, the focus is increasingly on the problem of immigration. President […]
al-Jahiz’s Book of Animals: The transcendent value of disgust
by: Jeannie Miller Jeannie Miller, an assistant professor in the department of near & Middle Eastern civilizations, is working on a manuscript examining The Book of Animals by al-Jahiz, a ninth-century Arabic writer and polymath. Al-Jahiz saw himself as a theologian and natural scientist, but is often miscast because of […]
Why Europe conquered the world
Feb 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Eleven hundred years ago, Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba, in Spain, which was Muslim. The Middle East was much further ahead, still absorbing the intellectual delights and challenges of Greek science, medicine and architecture that Europeans […]
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With Impending Muslim Ban, Trump to Turn Hate Into Policy
Source: The Daily Beast Donald Trump is poised to turn his hate-filled and bigoted campaign rhetoric about Muslims into policy. The man who despicably declared that “Islam hates us,” lied that “thousands” of Muslims cheered in New Jersey on 9/11 and claimed despite facts actually proving the opposite that American […]
Muslim educational attainment
1. Muslim educational attainment Among the world’s major religious groups, Muslims have made some of the greatest gains in educational achievement in recent decades. The share of Muslim adults (ages 25 and older) with at least some formal schooling has risen by 25 percentage points in the past three generations, […]
Religion and Education Around the World
Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Research Center global […]
Vital to the planet
Nov 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The UN climate change conference, held recently in Morocco as a crucial step for governments looking to build on the Paris Climate Change Agreement adopted last year, was proof that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is under way and that the spirit of […]
Can the Muslim American family survive Trump?
Aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion 2016/11/17 Huda Al-Marashi is an Iraqi-American writer specialising in Muslim women’s issues and the Muslim experience in the US. The day after the presidential election, my 14-year-old son left a message in the shower. With his little brother’s foam alphabet letters, he spelled out, “Haters gonna hate us.” It […]
USA: Lajna Ima’illah (Women) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Georgia host Holy Qur’an Exhibition
Source: http://patch.com/georgia/lawrenceville-ga/holy-quran-exhibition The Holy Qur’an Exhibition The Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, hosted a Holy Qur’an Exhibition on 15th of October at the Suwanee Library. By Attiya Ghani (Open Post) – October 19, 2016 4:25 pm ET “> The Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Georgia Chapter […]
TEN COUNTRIES HOST MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S REFUGEES: AMNESTY
The rights group has criticized developed countries for not accepting enough refugees. BY JACK MOORE ON 10/4/16 AT 11:58 AM CLOSESyrian Refugees In Jordan Struggle To Go To School Just ten countries host more than half of the world’s refugees with wealthy nations showing a lack of responsibility in absorbing […]
The human right that keeps on giving
Sep 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi; Nobel Laureate, 2014 I once met a boy working on a cocoa farm whose only dream was someday to taste the rich brown […]
Shimon Peres: Israel’s last founding father who sought peace with the Arab world
Shimon Peres stands alongside David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin in the upper echelons of statesmen that dominated Israeli politics both before and after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Peres, the son of a Polish émigré who moved to Tel Aviv in 1932, was intimately involved in conflicts as far […]
The war on terrorism won’t be won on the battlefield
Source: Washington Post By Fareed Zakaria On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was driving on the Long Island Expressway, heading out to a friend’s house to spend a […]
It’s sad but true that in colonial times, our government was better at responding to human rights abuses abroad than it is now
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 5 August 2016 Yemen children waving national flags at rally in support of the Houthi rebels on […]
Meet Generation M: the young, affluent Muslims changing the world
Source: The Guardian Book Reviewed by Harriet Sherwood The book written by Shelina Janmohamed Burkinis, misery memoirs and people on camels: the caricatures of Islam don’t leave much room for […]
Muslims ‘are Britain’s top charity givers’
Source: The Times By Ruth Gledhill Religion Correspondent June 2013 Muslims are among Britain’s most generous givers, topping a poll of religious groups that donate to charity, according to new […]
Anticipate a globalised Islamist virtual gangster cult
Jun 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Ever since Daesh proclaimed itself two years ago in Raqqa and Mosul as the nucleus of a modern Islamic caliphate, it has told its followers that it will endure and expand. I have always seen the Daesh territorial phenomenon, to the […]