This Qurayshi woman remains anonymous, but her story features most prominently in the Qur’anic exegetical literature in connection to the 20th ayah from Surah An-Nisa. Her...
From the moment that the first ayah of the Qur’an was revealed – “Iqra!” – reading has been a foundational part of the Islamic tradition. The...
Preface The first time I held a dying child in my arms, something in me changed forever. She was a little girl in Syria. The same...
It’s been almost a decade since I wrote about Choosing a Good Quran Teacher. Back then, the brave new world of online Quran study was just...
As a child, Azara Long often visited a linen shop on Sutter and Powell in San Francisco run by a Lebanese couple. Years later, she told...
Shaykh Abdullah Mullanee and Zainab bint Younus muse over the nostalgia of the Golden Age of Islam, and question the tendency to romanticize the past without...
The Weight of Symbolic Recognition When I saw the image, I stopped scrolling. A mosque with an American flag in front of it. The words across...
