The Qur’an describes Muslims committed to its mores as “a moderate nation,” and that sense of balance qualifies them to stand as “witnesses over humanity” (Q...
By Samaiya Mushtaq Soon after I started residency in psychiatry, the movie Spotlight was released, about The Boston Globe’s investigation and groundbreaking story on sexual abuse...
The American Muslim communities have several distinct ethics problems. Consider these hypotheticals. A professional imam trained in Islamic Studies becomes popular in his local community. The...
Non-Profits are vital to the communal fabric of the American Muslim community. Most Muslim non-profits are masajid. Others have specific other roles, such as legal services,...
by John Robbins By now, everyone has learned the details of how Abdul Razak Ali Artan carried out a violent attack against seemingly random passersby on...
In light of the recent US Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, we have seen a number of Muslim scholars reiterate the position of Islamic law...
“Every king has a sanctuary, and the sanctuary of Allah is what He has prohibited.” [dropcap size=big]P[/dropcap]eople sometimes jokingly ask, why is it that driving requires...
Pop psychology has this unique ability to take the worst of philosophical sophistry, combine it with the shoddiest research methods, and spit out ill-begotten, yet Scientific™,...
In the fortnight of wall-to-wall media hype dedicated to Super Bowl XLIX, no storyline has gone unturned. From Bill Belichick’s deflated footballs to Tom Brady’s nasal...
If we look back on the lives of the four imams – Abū Hanifah, Mālik b. Anas, al-Shāfi`ī, and Ahmad b. Hanbal – we find that...