Downton Abbey, the incredibly popular BBC period drama, has fans marveling at how different life used to be a hundred...
*Alhamdulillah, we would like to introduce SaqibSaab as a new associate writer for MuslimMatters.org. He is from Chicago and also writes on his own blog. When...
First a khutbah from last Friday on The Good Things of This World, delivered at Masjid at-Taqwa in Brooklyn, And this video, from a fund raiser...
A sign of the times…American university in Turkey flouts Turkish ban on headscarves. This article (from the Chronicle of Higher Education) is an apt reminder of...
The family down the street from me has a 20-foot-long effigy of a body hanging from the branch of a tree in their front lawn. It...
The Islamosphere is filled with excellent (and not so excellent) blogs by, and about, Muslims living in the West, trying to practice their Deen. Yet in...
Khalid Hosseini’s new novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is his second, following the much-acclaimed first, “Kite Runner”. Having not had the opportunity yet to read his...
“For the first time, God has competition“, Pat Mooney, the ETC group. This is one of the quotes that the rector of Imperial College London, Sir...
“Manners maketh man,” insisted William of Wykeham, the fourteenth century English churchman and Chancellor of England to Richard II. So significant is this wisdom that it...
Dallas area newspaper Star Telegram printed an Islamophobic opinion-piece by Cal Thomas, accusing all Muslims of being a “fifth column”. Thomas basically blames the trial result...
*The conclusion or answer to the question of permissibility can be found towards the bottom of this article, after an analysis of the many opinions on...
