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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