Note: This is a short essay that I wrote during my Comprehensive Exams as part of the requirements of the PhD at Yale. The question was...
Introduction Part One: The Islamic Beliefs Regarding Salvific Exclusivity It is a fundamental belief of Muslims that Islam is not only a divinely revealed religion from...
The Many Paths to God? Introduction As Muslims living in the West, we are faced with a myriad of legal, religious and political problems that our...
This article seeks to discuss, in moderate detail, the fiqh ruling on giving zakฤt al-fiแนญr in the form of money instead of staple food item. In...
A very inspiring story, from Arab News (follow link for photo). What really inspired me – more than the story of this orphan teenage convert who...
Update 9.25.07: List of signatories missed in the first issuance, added below. . In the Name of Allah, the Ever-Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy All Praise...
Out of all the symbols that Muslims could have chosen to symbolize the unity of Islam, it is indeed ironic that they chose the crescent, which...
I admit: I am cheesed off. Totally, that is. Recently, I returned from one of the largest Muslim conferences in North America. While at the...
Recently I wrote a paper regarding one of the works of an early Sufi and scholar of kalam, al-Harith b. Asad al-Muhasibi (d. 243 A.H. /...
A previous post on this same subject had the speech broken in 10-part video. Those 10 have been combined in 2 videos for easier viewing. Comments...