The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
“A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a genius learns from the mistakes of others.” If you are going...
By Umm Idris Every so often, a book comes along that forces us to radically re-think our basic assumptions. Wilkinson and Pickett’s The Spirit Level, a...
On the second day of his inauguration, President Obama signed executive orders calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a year. Three years later and...
By ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — In the three months since the Israeli Health Ministry awarded a prize to a pediatrics professor for her...
IbnabeeOmar blogs about organizational development at the Muslim Strategic Initiative. This article was initially posted there and is cross-posted here with a new epilogue. Slate raised...
One of our regular contributors to Muslim Kids Matter monthly posts is young Nur Kose. Today she writes to us about a special project she’s working...
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:42pm EST AMMAN (Reuters) – The most senior commander to abandon the Syrian military during a...
Lecture by Abdul Nasir Jangda | Transcribed by Sameera [The following is the video and transcript of Shaykh Abdul Nasir’s lecture “Istikharah: How to and Why?.” The...
MuslimMatters.org presents Islamic Graphics: a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily insert images of common Islamic phrases directly into your posts and pages via shortcodes....
By: Abu Ibrahim Ismail Perhaps you’ve tried to ignore it as I have. But you cannot. Why? Because it’s everywhere. No, it’s not the wildly fluctuating...
By Camilla Morrison In the early days of Islam, a few companions of the Prophet were fleeing persecution in Mecca and sought refuge in Abyssinia. The...
