Source: Arab News Afghan Refugee Nadia Nadim Scales Summit of Women’s Football Nadim sets sights on women’s World Cup glory this summer. Former Afghan refugee plans to become a doctor […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Provincial lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan have assailed as anti-Islamic women’s marches held earlier this month across the country to mark the International Women’s Day. Lawmakers in […]
Source: ilfordrecorder.co.uk International Women’s Day 2019: Redbridge Sikh & Ahmadiyya Muslim women’s groups unite for gender equality PUBLISHED By: Aaron Walawalkar The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association held an exhibition at […]
News courtesy: Mubarika Kalim, Event coordinator, Calgary, Canada The Women’s Auxiliary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā’at organized its Annual International Women’s Day Interfaith Seminar and Exhibition on Saturday March 9, 2019 at Baitun Nur Mosque Calgary, the largest mosque in Western Canada. The event promotes a deeper understanding of Women in […]
Most Western Europeans favor restrictions on Muslim women’s religious clothing: https://t.co/FE0OwU6hIi pic.twitter.com/J22JsJIqJa — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) March 3, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Mother Mary is always with a Hijab in artist's […]
By Maariyaah Shaheen It has certainly been one of the most difficult decisions to elect the top 10 Muslim Women of 2015: with success not far from revolutionary, Muslim women […]
What the Koran really says about women Source: The Telegraph By Carla Powers, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction, 2016 When Middle East correspondent Carla Power began studying […]
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia has announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will become its next ambassador to the US – the first woman ever to take on an envoy […]
Source: BBC By Faranak Amidi; Women’s Affairs reporter, BBC World Service On my first day of school in Iran we walked down a poorly-lit corridor. I was holding my mother’s hand and crying. She was crying too. On my head I had a black hood, known as a maghnaeh, covering my […]
Source: Open Democracy By Nandini Archer 7 From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’. […]
Source: The Chronicle Herald Quebec’s new minister responsible for the status of women faced criticism Wednesday after saying she considers the hijab to be a symbol of oppression. Speaking to […]
Suggested reading Thomas Jefferson and Islam as an American Religion We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident Also: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Inscriptions Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders 5 Facts […]
Epigraph: Indeed Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is a commonly known verse of the Quran: “If you fear that you cannot treat orphans […]
Freedom of religion is not legally protected in the Islamic kingdom, and people who convert to another religion risk being charged with apostasy By Aisha K. Gill; @DrAishaKGill Source: The […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein , Marisa Iati and Julie Zauzmer January 3 Khadra Mohamud stood in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s brand-new congressional office Thursday, taking in a new scene in American […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The very first or the second verse of Surah Nisa, which would be translated as the chapter about […]
Source: Huffington Post The Muslim congresswoman-elect will be the first hijab-wearing member of the House. By Alanna Vagianos As a hijab-wearing, Somali-American refugee, Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar of Minnesota knows just […]
Garry Wills’ Book: What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters Garry Wills has been a leading commentator on political and religious life in America for decades, winner of a […]
Suggested reading How Islam has Influenced the Christian understanding of God Video: How Jesus Became God, by Prof. Bart Ehrman?
