The Muslims Who Inspired Spinoza, Locke, and Defoe
Source: The Cato Institute The way forward for the Islamic world lies in reconciling faith and reason. By Mustafa Akyol This article appeared on The New York Times on April 5, 2021. In […]
Call for prayer broadcast again during second Ramadan in lockdown
Source: CTV, By Fakiha Baig EDMONTON — Moona Khan says every time she hears the call for prayer playing from the speakers at her mosque, her heart sings and she’s […]
Sikhs in America: A religious community long misunderstood is mourning deaths in Indianapolis mass shooting
Source: Conversation On April 16, 2021, a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis killing eight people and injuring several others before taking his own life. Four members of the Sikh community were among those gunned down. The site was reported as having a significant number of Sikh […]
Some religious, political parties misusing Islam: Pakistani PM
PAKISTAN APP APRIL 19, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday announced to lead a strong campaign at international level along with the heads of Muslim countries to jointly […]
Pakistan’s creation: a British conspiracy?
OP-ED Pakistan’s creation: a British conspiracy? Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH APRIL 19, 2021 A certain political scientist, a writer of 700-page ideologicalpolemic against Jinnah trying unsuccessfully to disprove Ayesha Jalal’s thesis […]
Pakistan’s Religious Purity Test
Prominent economist Atif Rehman Mian was forced out as the wrong kind of Muslim. By Tunku Varadarajan April 13, 2021 When the Guggenheim Foundation announced the winners of its fellowships for […]
Annalena Baerbock: The Green Party’s candidate to succeed chancellor Angela Merkel
Source:DW Annalena Baerbock has been named the Green party’s first-ever chancellor candidate, emphasizing at a press conference on Monday the unanimity with which she and co-leader Robert Habeck had made the decision, and the clarity of their purpose, first formulated at a party conference three years ago: To become a new big […]
The Immigration Misconception
ARTICLES By Hamaad Khan, Commissioning Editor Late last year, in response to a journalist asking whether the economic fallout of COVID-19 could lead to military conflict, the head of Britain’s […]
Ibn Battuta, Muslim traveler
Muslim explorer and writer WRITTEN BY Ivan Hrbek Staff member, Oriental Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1953–92. Author of “The Chronology of Ibn Battute’s Travels” in Archiv Orientalni.Last Updated: Feb 20, […]
Why Islamic State involvement in Mozambique is exaggerated
© EPA Residents of Palma, northern Mozambique, are trying to get back to normality in the wake of the attack The recent insurgent raid on the Mozambican town of Palma made […]
Pakistan’s Imran Khan equates insulting Muhammad with Holocaust denial
Source: DW Denying the Holocaust is an illegal offense in several European countries and offenders can end up in jail. Imran Khan would like the same punishments meted out for […]
Why Americans lack adequate access to fertility treatments
(CNN) One in eight couples suffers from infertility in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My husband and I are that one in eight. When we decided to start our family in 2017, I was 29 years old and expected that having children was […]
Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Tenth Century Provence
By Mohammad Bailan: Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Stony Brook University. He is a historian of the pre-modern Mediterranean world, specializing in the political, intellectual and cultural history of […]
Remnants of mosque from earliest decades of Islam found in Israel
Archaeologists say foundations excavated in Tiberias are of a mosque built in about AD670 Associated Press in Tiberias Thu 28 Jan 2021 Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque […]
Vatican sends greetings to Muslims as Ramadan begins
SOURCE: VATICAN NEWS The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue releases a message addressed to “all Muslim brothers and sisters” to show solidarity and friendship as they start their month of […]
Study reveals a deepening water crisis in Jordan – and a way forward
by Josie Garthwaite, Stanford University Dwindling water supplies and a growing population will halve per capita water use in Jordan by the end of this century. Without intervention, few households in […]
IsDB Group implements 80 development projects in Senegal worth US$2.6 billion
30 August 2020 Dr Bandar Hajjar, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB Group), stated that IsDB Group is currently implementing 80 development projects in Senegal worth US$2.6 billion, […]
Surah Yasin’s Lucid Argument About the Afterlife
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page “Does not man see that We have created him from a […]
Another Vietnam, this time in Afghanistan
U.S. leaves Afghanistan empty-handed after two decades Another Vietnam, this time in Afghanistan Politics April 18, 2021 TEHRAN – As the United States accelerates efforts to withdraw its forces from […]