Tom Verde Our third story is that of Shajarat al-Durr, the first woman to sit upon an Egyptian throne since Cleopatra, nearly 1,300 years before. Art direction for the “Malika” series is by Ana Carreño Leyva; calligraphy is by Soraya Syed; and the logo graphics are by Mukhtar Sanders (Image Source) *** [Note of […]
Professor Abdus Salam This short article was written by Dr. Abdus Salam at the age of 26, when he was a professor of mathematics at Government College, Lahore, in 1951. Professor Salam took the position of Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, in 1957 and was later […]
Source: The Daily Sabah By İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Ibn Khaldun, one of the greatest minds in the Islamic intellectual tradition, who wrote more about history, culture, society, civilization and political power than […]
LATEST http://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=5237374177001&autoplay Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem Background to the holy wars and the First Crusade’s conquest of Jerusalem, a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims TUNE IN HERE: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-crusades-an-arab-perspective/
Nov 23, 2016 House of Wisdom Back in the 9th century AD, the House of Wisdom was established in Baghdad. It contained manuscripts on mathematics, astronomy, science, medicine, and philosophy from Persia, India, and Greece. There were also astronomical observatories, laboratories for chemistry and alchemy, and a center for studying […]
Source: Geo TV Tariq Moin Siddiqui Istanbul, Turkey’s commercial, tourism and cultural centre situated at the junction of Europe and Asia, is gifted with a priceless historical heritage spanning over […]
Nariman El-MoftyAssociated Press Mecca, Saudi Arabia | Fri, September 16 2016 In this Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 photo, a Pakistani man living near Hira cave reads before sunrise on Noor Mountain, where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation from God to preach Islam, on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi […]
Apr 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It has been proven true over the years that victors write the history. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in Jerusalem, where Israelis are trying unsuccessfully to rewrite centuries-old history. By changing facts on the ground the Israelis are desperately trying to […]
Ali-Akbar Velayati’s books on history of Islam and Iran published Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN – A series of books written by Ali-Akbar Velayati, a senior foreign policy advisor to the Supreme Leader, has recently been published by Tasnim News Agency Publications. The first volume of the Encyclopedia of Culture […]
Source: BBC By Tharik Hussain Keturiasdesimt Totoriu, Lithuania It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the […]
A view of Jannatul Muala, in a corner of which is a small grave indicating the resting place of Asma bint Abu Bakr (may Allah bless her). ABU TARIQ HIJAZI Published — Friday 13 November 2015 From Bilal to Sumayya, the history of Islam is replete with sacrifices rendered by […]
A THOUSAND years ago, the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo took turns to race ahead of the Western world. Islam and innovation were twins. The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers—beacons of learning, tolerance and trade. Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state. Even as Asia, […]
Apr. 02 2014 Few regions in the Muslim world have seen as much warfare in modern times as Afghanistan. Foreign interventions and invasions have been an almost constant threat to […]
The history of Madinah has been illuminated in words and images at a major art exhibition that opened on Tuesday in the city. Entitled “Letters and Illumination,” the exhibition includes […]
SOURCE: FACTORS BEHIND THE DECLINE OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE AFTER THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY [1] Nature, the international journal of science, with headquarters in London, has published on 2 November 2006 an issue devoted mainly to Islam and Science. The articles and items are written by Muslim and non-Muslim writers who express […]
Abu Bakr was a man of shrewd judgment. He was able to discern the truth. Thus, he found it very easy to see the truth in Islam but realized that […]
ASHRAF PADANNA: ARAB NEWS Published — Thursday 9 January 2014 Descendants of Tipu Sultan, who ruled most of the southern parts of India and died fighting the British in 1799, […]
Central Asian Muslim scholar Abu Raihan al-Biruni hypothesized the existence of the Americas in the early eleventh century. World Bulletin / News Desk Amid the growing wave of pessimism regarding […]
“All opinions are that of the author and not necessarily those of the website that it is published under.” Even today as we wade our way through the second decade of the twenty first century, there is still much we can learn from the staggering account of Abū Hamid al-Ghazali’s […]
By Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00 Source: OnIslam.net Ala-al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (known as Ibn Al-Nafis) was born in 1213 A.D. in Damascus. He was educated at the Medical College Hospital (Bimaristan Al-Noori) founded by Noor al-Din Al-Zanki. Apart from medicine, Ibn […]