By Isla Rosser-Owen The Blue Plaques Scheme was started in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts, upon…
What is in the name ‘kalam’? How the word kalam came to be the name of the science…
In the Name of Allah Most Merciful and Compassionate. Praise be to Allah for my lowliness. O Lord,…
[Source: Dr. `Inayatullah Iblagh al-Afghanistani, Doctorate thesis: al-Imam al-A`zam Abu Hanifa al-Mutakallim (The Greatest Imam: Abu Hanifa, The…
taken from the book ‘Ihya al-Maqbur‘ pages 59-60. by the late Muhaddith of the Age, Imam Abu’l-Fayd Ahmad…
The Chechen peoples desperate struggle for freedom has taken many Muslims by surprise. As with Bosnia three…
The approach to Makka lies through mountains, sharp, unforgiving angles of granite. The road to Madina passes through…
bismi’Llahi’r-Rahmani’r-Rahim It is striking that not one of the great muhaddiths, mufassirs, grammarians, historians, or legists of Islam…
By the solar calendar, July 1999 represents the nine hundredth anniversary of the Crusader sack of Jerusalem. The…
From CHAPTER XI of Kashf al-Mahjub 1. HABIB AL-`AJAMI His conversion (tawbat) was begun by Hasan of Basra.…
Question: Assalamu alaykum Dr. Blankinship. I was watching a lecture by you titled “The Life of the Prophet Muhammad,” and…
A defence of the Ash’ari school by one of the foremost scholars of Hadith and Fiqh in Makkah of…
The Egyptian poet al-Busiri (d.1294) is considered the most distinguished author of poems praising the Prophet Muhammad (a.s.).…
When the Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi passed through the Balkan city of Plovdiv in 1650, he pulled out all the organ stops of Ottoman panegyric to describe this ‘mighty city.’ He counted fifty-three mosques, seventy Qur’anic schools, nine madrasas, seven colleges for advanced Qur’anic recitation, eight public baths, and eleven Sufi lodges
In the immediate aftermath of the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the Papacy, Muslim reactions to the new…