The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
Siraaj Muhammad tackles the concept of celebrity shaykh worship: being so swept up in adoring the personality of a religious...
…and part of Suratul Fajr [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJ3-wjTll8]
The source material for this article are some notes I took from an excellent lecture by Dr. Salāh al-Sāwī. Unfortunately, my notes were brief and so...
Next: The Big Questions, Part II—The Purpose of Life Our guest-writer of this series, Dr. Laurence Brown, a former atheist, received his B.A. from Cornell University,...
Ok, ok, I know everyone’s quite sick of discussions around this program. But I was cajoled into watching the 8th episode to witness for myself the...
The New York Times has put out the article that I referred to earlier Again, not on the strength of any theological arguments, but using the...
After an extended break from our weekly Blogosphere reviews comes an extended version: Dr. M is back with his hard-hitting observations here. On Ahad vs. Mutawatir...
Or rather, showing it. In keeping with what seems to be a trend here at MuslimMatters, this post is also going to be about the parent-child...
A nice reminder of the humanity of our suffering brothers and sisters in Palestine (hat-tip to Under the Holly Tree)
I was listening to the radio this morning, and heard a New York Times writer discussion the growing trend of “Shiitization” in Syria. “Shiitization” refers to...
Several years ago, as a teenager/young-adult in America, I used to hear this quite a bit from my parents: “America kee hawa lug gayi hey” (you...
