Book Review: The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast
View Larger The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire Hanson, John H. Distribution: World Publication date: 10/16/2017 Format: Paperback 14 b&w illus., 7 maps ISBN: […]
Spread of Islam in West Africa (part 1 of 3): The Empire of Ghana
Description: How Islam spread into sub-Saharan region of West Africa, and the great civilizations it established there, taking its inhabitants out of paganism to the worship of One God. […]
UK: Trustees lose legal battle for construction of Tableeghi Markaz, mosque
Trustees lose legal battle for construction of Tableeghi Markaz, mosque in London thenews.com.pk LONDON: Trustees of Tableeghi Markaz and Ilyas Mosque in East London have lost a legal battle against Newham Council regarding construction of their Tableeghi Markaz of Abbey Mills Mosque, also known as the London Markaz or Masjid-e-Ilyas, […]
Video: Keeping Strife Out of Your Life
We are saving this video in the Muslim Times here as well: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no […]
Turkish president meets pope, expected to discuss Jerusalem
Reuters International This content was published on February 5, 2018 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) is welcomed by archbishop Georg Ganswein as he arrives to attend a private audience […]
Impact Bonds : Switzerland: a hub for innovative social financing
By Anand Chandrasekhar in Zurich This content was published on February 6, 2018 The UBS Optimus Foundation invested in a DIB to help girls attend school in rural India […]
Trump nominee for U.N. migration post called Muslims violent, Christians top priority
Source: The Washington Post By Aaron C. Davis and Jack Gillum February 3 Email the author The Trump administration’s nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in assistance to migrants around the world has suggested in social-media […]
Evangelicals may be driving Republican stance to embrace ‘DREAMers’
Source: USA Today BY Eliza Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – As the debate over immigration rages in Congress without an agreement in sight, there is growing consensus over one piece of […]
Judge temporarily halts deportation of Indonesian Christians
Source: Associated Press By DAVID PORTER HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily halted deportation proceedings against Indonesian Christians who are in the U.S. illegally but are seeking to gain legal status, including a man honored for his work helping to rebuild more than 200 homes after […]
Holocaust denier running for Congress has no opponents in Republican primary
Source: The Wahsington Post By Amy B Wang February 5 at 9:10 AM Email the author The U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Like most candidates running for Congress, Arthur Jones has a campaign […]
Pat Robertson, prominent televangelist, is recovering from a stroke
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey February 3 Pat Robertson poses a question to a Republican presidential candidate during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, on Oct. 23, […]
Compulsory Veils? Half of Iranians Say ‘No’ to Pillar of Revolution
Source: The New York Times By THOMAS ERDBRINK A poster of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran. Mr. Rouhani, a moderate compared with Iran’s hard-liners, has called for more freedoms for Iranians. CreditNewsha […]
Surah Qaf: The First Creation as the Foremost Proof for Afterlife
Source: The Quran.Love Introduction The first few verses of this Surah highlight the creativity of God Almighty as a proof for the Afterlife or the second creation: Do they not […]
Photo Essay: A Glimpse Into the Ahmadis’ Jalsa in Punjab’s Qadian
By Usman Ahmad on 18/01/2018 Tens of thousands of Ahmadi Muslims come together every year in the small town of Qadian in Gurdaspur for the community’s annual convention or Jalsa. […]
Amendment declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslim proposed in AJK
February 2, 2018 BY APP MUZAFFARABAD: An amendment has been tabled in legislative Assembly in Interim Constitution 1974 of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to declare Ahmadi community as non-Muslim […]
‘Motherlode’ of Dinosaur Footprints Discovered at NASA Flight Center
Source: Time By KATE SAMUELSON February 2, 2018 At least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks were discovered in an area no larger than two square meters at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center near […]
To Know Muslim History is to Know Black History.
February 21, 2017 by Hakeem Muhammad True Black history has been obfuscated and replaced with nefarious Eurocentric myths. Africa is portrayed as a place without history: primitive, inferior and impoverished. […]
Israel begins telling African migrants to leave
By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel began warning thousands of African migrants on Sunday that they must leave by the end of March, officials […]
Dental Care in Islamic Medical Science: Muhammad al-Aqkirmani (d. 1760) and his Risalah fi hukm al-Siwak
By: Mykhaylo Yakubovych Most of the oldest Muslim treatises on Siwak remain in a manuscript form. However, similar works on this issue have also appeared in later periods… Figure 1. Article Image Banner Dental care in Islamic history Figure 2. An illustration of Salvadora persica (Source) Among the corpus […]
Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane On 13 and 14 January 2018 Ashfia Ashrif, Manchester based Artist and Student of Traditional Arts, delivered a two day course named “Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times” at FSTC House. Figure 1. Image collage from the weekend course ©Sairah On 13 and 14 January 2018 […]