Oscar-winning actor and screen legend Sir Ben Kingsley has taken the starring role in a short feature film about the scientific heritage of Muslim civilisation. The mini-movie, entitled “1001 Inventions […]
1001 Inventions exhibition takes visitors through the works of scientists and scholars during the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization, while Arabick Roots reveals the influence of this science on the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: October 17, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more […]
Story Summary Daily Star, Lebanon Palestine has once again faced vocal rejection of its statehood bid, this time in a statement from the United States declaring that such a move would set back the peace process. The delay in recognizing Palestine instead means the country is steadily losing more land […]
Story Summary by Rami G. Khouri Sometimes things happen so slowly that the casual observer misses them, and one such occurrence is the slow evolution in the United States’ position in its faceoff with Iran. Two important things seem to have occurred since the spring: Washington seems to have taken […]
Story Summary Pope Benedict XVI will send a delegation to Damascus to express his solidarity with the Syrian people, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as violence escalated with deadly air […]
The beginning of the publication of this book, in Urdu in 1880, started the renaissance of Islam Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya has been called the Magnum opus of the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, […]
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s economy minister condemned the European Union on Tuesday as the most hypocritical organisation in the world, in vitriolic remarks which underlined the EU candidate country’s growing alienation from Brussels. Turkey’s bid to join the bloc has virtually ground to a halt in recent years due to opposition […]
MD RASOOLDEEN ARABNEWS RIYADH: The Ministry Health Ministry advised pregnant mothers and patients suffering from chronic ailments to postpone the Haj pilgrimage for a subsequent occasion. Dr. Nasreen Sherbini, health adviser on epidemic diseases, offered the advice yesterday to prospective local Haj pilgrims through the ministry’s phone-in-service conducted by its […]
Osama Al Sharif ARABNEWS TWENTY months after the eruption of peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad, the situation today spells a different reality. More than 30,000 people have perished so far in drawn-out bloody confrontations between armed dissidents, representing various groups with different political and ideological affiliations, […]
ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Arafat Day, when millions of Muslim pilgrims will stand in prayer on the mount of Arafat near Makkah at the peak of the annual pilgrimage, will […]
Author: Jon Ostendorff with contribution from The Associated Press Source: Citizen-Times.com A Billy Graham Evangelistic Association article labeling Mormonism a cult has been removed from the group’s website following the 93-year-old evangelist’s meeting with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week. Graham, during the meeting, pledged to do “all I can” […]
Global Post: ANTWERP, Belgium — Europe’s rising tide of nationalism swept over Belgium on Sunday when separatists seeking independence for the country’s Dutch-speaking north surged in local elections to take […]
Russian TV: Many gave a sigh of relief after the papyrus fragment known as the “Gospel of Jesus’ wife” turned out to be a fake. The text hailed as “old […]
Examiner.com: Malala Yousafzai, a teenager from the Swat Valley in Pakistan was shot in the head last week by the Taliban because of her unflinching quest for education despite all odds. The attack on the unarmed, 14 year old girl has alarmed the whole world. It has sent shock waves in Pakistan and […]
Dawn.com: by Kaiser Bengali. TWO events in recent weeks have shaken the country and — fortunately, for a change — led to intense soul-searching. The first event was the response to the anti-Islam film in the US and the second the shooting of 14-year old schoolgirl and anti-Taliban blogger Malala […]
Thwarting Religious Cleansing in the Muslim World By Farahnaz Ispahani & Nina Shea October 16, 2012 5:33 P.M Physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to win a […]
A coalition of religious organizations representing a broad spectrum of faiths is buying up ad space in Metro stations to counter an advertising campaign mounted last week that many observers see as anti-Muslim. Shoulder to Shoulder, which includes 28 member groups representing Christians, Jews and Muslims, is placing in three […]
New car sales in the European Union have fallen for the 12th month in a row in September, according to the region’s biggest carmakers. Demand across the 27 European Union […]