When Ramadan approaches, many of us are excited. It feels like a gift from Allah to bring us back, no...
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...
Part I | Part II Political From the political front unrest was found both in the provinces and in the elite Janissaries. The Janissaries, who comprised of...
