Translated by Hamza Yusuf Hanson founder and President of Zaytuna College In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the…
Introduction and Important Note The following was the response to a series of questions that I had relating…
Introduction by Gibril F Haddad [originally on the Living Islam Website] Introduction In the Name of God, the…
(From the Mughni of Shaykh al-Islam Imam Muwaffaq ud-Din Ibn Qudamma al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali [d.541/1146]) Translated by Mahdi Lock…
By Hamza Yusuf This paper examines the issue of Muslims physically sighting the crescent moon as the basis for…
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…
Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa-alihi wa-sahbihi wa-sallim As-salamu alaykum. The recent inquisition directed against me and by…
(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.).…
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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…
Ramadan brings to the surface some of Istanbul’s deepest human secrets. The great City resembles the improbable arm…