Prof. John Makdisi traces the Islamic Origins of the Common Law
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We can read John Makdisi’s magnum opus by ordering the North Carlina Law Review article from a Library or by […]
‘What’s the point of International Geneva if our role is just the messenger?’
Foreign affairs Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis (l) met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (r) in Tehran, Iran, on September 7, 2020. Keystone / President Office Handout Senator Thomas Minder accompanied a […]
UAE-Israel deal breaks Arab unity, endangers Palestinian cause, experts say
BY ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ ISTANBUL NEWS ANALYSIS SEP 11, 2020 Palestinians burn cutouts depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Minority report: The Jews of Lebanon
Descendants of the country’s dwindling community recall listening to their parents’ memories of a lost ‘paradise’ An Arab News Deep Dive A Lebanese Jewish family gathered at a wedding […]
Belgian king’s daughter fights for right to call herself a princess
Delphine Boël, whose mother had affair with ex-king Albert II, also wants to take her father’s surname Delphine Boël leaving court in Brussels with her lawyer, Marc Uyttendaele. She is […]
The nightmare of growing up as a Muslim American after 9/11
With each hearing as I sat in the courtroom where our fates were being determined, I started feeling less and less American and more and more an outsider Anisa Noor […]
The Sacred Cows: Indian state uses draconian law to detain those accused of killing cows
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – More than half the arrests this year under a tough national security law in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh have involved suspects in cases […]
The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorism
Nobel Prize for a noble woman Mar 31,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – BY ALI KASSAY, alikassay@ace-house.com One of the marvels of the Internet age is that rarely a week goes by […]
Success – A Treatise by Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra)
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih II(ra) AHMADIYYAT 26th August 2020 ©Pixabay The humanitarian crisis caused by Covid-19 has prompted many people to re-evaluate their lives. More than […]
Lawrence of Arabia given new life in Saudi home restoration
The home of former British intelligence officer TE Lawrence, which has stood in ruins over the past century, has been restored as part of Saudi efforts to kickstart tourism TE […]
The Fading Divinity of Jesus Christ
By Sabahat Ali, USA Perfect man and perfect God. Five simple words upon which rests the foundation of modern Christianity. Five words which many Americans no longer believe. A 2020 […]
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
Artificial intelligence (AI) We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace For more […]
How a rush for Mediterranean gas threatens to push Greece and Turkey into war
Deepening dispute between Nato allies has dragged in neighbours and is in danger of spiralling out of control by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Fri 11 Sep 2020 An increasingly fractious standoff over […]
The ending of the Jamal Khashoggi case has left a number of questions – but it was always going to
This is one of a number of events around the world this week that should give us pause, says Robert Fisk 10 hours ago A Saudi court recently commuted five death […]
Our Haunted House?
By Naseer A. Tahir, MD, Rochester, NY I had returned to a job in Rochester, NY after working in New Jersey for a year or so. We had just moved […]
The religious composition of U.S. teens (ages 13-17)
The religious composition of U.S. teens (ages 13-17), according to our survey: https://t.co/YKGDrHu6hF pic.twitter.com/IelSLSDTXr — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) September 10, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Blasphemy Laws are a tool to surprise minorities in Pakistan
Blasphemy laws are a tool to suppress minorities in Pakistan
One Way the Kurdish Insurgency Could Lead to the Collapse of Turkey
Once other countries even covertly begin supporting the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, there will be no turning back. by Michael Rubin Modern Turkey arose nearly one hundred years ago against the […]
When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed
Jeff Grabmeier Ohio State News grabmeier.1@osu.edu Editor’s note (3/21/20): For an update on this story, visit: Why is a 16-year-old book on slavery so popular now? A new […]
Refugee protection at risk
Posted on 8 September 2020 by Jeff Crisp Two of the words that we should try to avoid when writing about refugees are “unprecedented” and “crisis.” They are used far too often and […]