Malaysia’s position in the world at the present time is as unique as it is strategic. The country…
Question: Assalamu alaykum Dr. Blankinship. I was watching a lecture by you titled “The Life of the Prophet Muhammad,” and…
If the Arabian prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) is to be considered part of the…
All praises are due to Allah. We praise Him, seek His help, and ask His forgiveness. We seek…
You must be of good counsel to all Muslims. The highest point of this is that you conceal…
(The writer (1915-1978) was an English convert to Islam who became a Shaykh of the Tariqa Chishtiyya, living…
Introduction by Gibril F Haddad [originally on the Living Islam Website] Introduction In the Name of God, the…
Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa-alihi wa-sahbihi wa-sallim As-salamu alaykum. Around two weeks have passed since the ‘Happy…
Middle Eastern perceptions of modern American theopolitics © Abdal-Hakim Murad, 2013 ‘I love America, such a wonderful country…
(reproduced courtesy of www.lastprophet.info) In a former church, my heart is a mihrâb, Urging me to repent, the erasure 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
by Imam Ghazali There are ten good manners which the pilgrim should observe. Firstly, the money he spends…
During the first, formative centuries of its existence, the Ottoman state typically grounded its claims to legitimacy in…
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