Sunday, July 7th is our Islamic New Year. It will be the year 1446, which indicates the number of years...
Siraaj Muhammad tackles the concept of celebrity shaykh worship: being so swept up in adoring the personality of a religious leader that we forget the real...
For a lot of us, one of the biggest obstacles of turning back to Allah ﷻ, becoming more committed to our dīn, and nurturing a stronger...
In an earlier MuslimMatters article titled My Husband Is Not As Practicing As Me, the Shaykha shared her spiritual advice about what Muslim women can do...
I recently got the chance to chat with Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, Rifk Ebeid. Rifk has worked with various human rights organizations on media...
Abstract Deism has long served as an intellectual haven for those who are convinced of God’s existence yet are disenchanted with organized religion. Despite its principal...
In 2021, MuslimMatters hosted the Muslim Bookstagram Awards to celebrate and uplift Muslim voices in literature. We interviewed the judges of the awards to get their...
Introduction The majority of American Muslims in the early twentieth century were Black and have a history in the United States that dates back to the...
There’s a mistake that many mothers of single daughters on the marriage market make: pressuring their daughters to change essential parts of themselves for the sake...
Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Huzaifa Shabazz examine how global Islamophobia inspired and motivated the Buffalo terrorist and other domestic terrorists. Like other white supremacists before him,...
Maryam (an alias) writes about her painful physical, emotional, and spiritual experience with the loss of her dearest fetus, and offers some valuable advice. Trigger Warning:...
