Zainab bint Younus writes a book review of Dr. Usaama al-Azami’s “Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy...
I was visiting the community in Macon, Georgia yesterday and a friend asked me the difference between two very interesting words in the Qur’an, both of...
Dawah in India is a hot item as of late. Organizations like Islamic Research Foundation, an India-based Dawah project headed by Dr. Zakir Naik, has been...
It seems that I am gradually becoming MuslimMatters’ unofficial media correspondent, as I now blog about yet another documentary concerning a Muslim minority community. But perhaps...
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...
When I began high school, I attended a local Friday night youth group halaqh. One night, the brother preparing the talk for the night handed out...
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...
Recently, the UK PM, Gordon Brown, proposed that in order to tackle the problem of organ donor shortages, the current “opt-in” system should be replaced with...
Do not cast yourselves, with your own hands, into destruction [Quran 2-195] There is such things as differences of opinions, fundamental theological differences, different fiqh, etc....
Something nice I received.. A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He...
An Email was sent out to a Muslim who recently accepted Islam explaining Ashura. It wasn’t as exhaustive as the article up on IslamQA, but reading...
