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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 5, 2018 • ( 10 Comments )

Why do Ismailis Pray Dua instead of Namaz like many other Muslims?

Source: Ismaili Gnosis The prayer-form that most Muslims use today – called Namaz or Salah – was not taught by the Prophet Muhammad himself; it was actually derived and interpreted […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 5, 2018 • ( 7 Comments )

Why Don’t Ismailis Perform the Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca?

  The hajj as interpreted by Sunni Muslims is made to the physical Ka‘bah in Makkah, which is revered as the House of God. However, there are three major Qur’ānic […]

By rabyam on January 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Onstage, a revealing perspective of Muslim women

Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Wallenberg Rohina Malik was attending a friend’s wedding some 15 years ago when the realities of post-9/11 America rocked her world. A Chicago-based theater […]

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Mumbai Shuts Down as Protests Erupt Over Caste Tensions

Source: The New York Times By VINDU GOEL, KAI SCHULTZ and HARI KUMAR JAN. 3, 2018 Unrest in India fanned out to Mumbai, the financial capital, on Wednesday, and schools, trains and businesses shut down […]

By rabyam on January 4, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

Turkish child marriage religious document sparks anger

Source: BBC News Turkey’s main opposition party has called for a parliamentary inquiry after the directorate of religious affairs said that, under Islamic law, girls as young as nine could […]

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Q&A: Are the Koreas on the Verge of a Diplomatic Breakthrough?

Source: Time By FOSTER KLUG / AP (SEOUL) — After one of the most fraught years on the Korean Peninsula in recent memory — threats of war amid North Korea’s strongest-ever […]

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The changing buzzwords of business books

Source: BBC News By Miriam Quick Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, […]

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Film review: All the money in the world

Source: BBC News By Nicholas Barber 4 January 2018 Ridley Scott’s true-life kidnap drama, All the Money in the World, is destined to go down in cinema history as the […]

By rabyam on January 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Alcohol can cause irreversible genetic damage to stem cells, says study

Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Link between drinking and cancer clarified by study which indicates alcohol causes cancer by scrambling DNA in cells, eventually leading to mutations  Just one […]

By rabyam on January 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims

Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims  People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]

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New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow

Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]

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Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi

Source: The Washington Post By Erin Cunningham KONYA, Turkey — Nestled in Turkey’s Anatolian heartland, Konya is both an economic boomtown and a bastion of conservatism — a modern Turkish city with deep Islamic […]

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My father, the Catholic priest who doesn’t want to know me

Source: BBC News By Sarah McDermott BBC World Service At the age of 12, Sarah Thomas found out that her father – who she’d never known – was a Roman […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 4, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Ottoman Music Therapy

By: Nil Sari Music has been used as a mean of therapy through the centuries to counter all kinds of disorders by various peoples. Physicians and musicians in the Ottoman […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 4, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Remembering Salman Taseer

Source: The Beginning By Saira A. Nizami January 2014 Years on, nothing has changed. Those who chant Qadri’s name stay the same and those who condemn this act and ask […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Garbage collector Syrian finds gold in trash, hands it to Turkish police

DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A Syrian man making a living by collecting recyclable garbage in an eastern Turkish city was hailed for taking gold jewelry he found in a dumpster to […]

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From an Arab point of view: Sizing up the Turkish threat

Fadi Esber | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018 In his magnum opus “Strategic Depth,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top foreign policy adviser Ahmet Davutoglu predicted that one day popular uprisings would […]

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The significance of the insignificant in Israeli assault on truth

Ray Hanania | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018 There is no boundary for Israel’s atrocities; a lesson Arabs should understand and take into account when addressing Israel’s political actions.  To Israel, no lie is too small to advocate, and they will defend their lies to the extreme. To Israel, […]

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Makkah Grand Mosque management to pilgrims: Don’t get carried away taking selfies

Saudi Arabia TARIQ AL-THAQAFI | Published — Friday 29 December 2017   MAKKAH: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque urged worshippers and […]

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‘Race law’ takes Jerusalem a step closer to being a Jewish-only city

Ramzy Baroud | Published — Wednesday 3 January 2018   The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and […]

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