I feel a great big, cynically smug “I knew it all along” coming on. Honeymoon’s over, people – Barack Obama is proving himself to be just...
Bismillah I have always known Swat to be popular and much-visited for its picturesque valleys and beautiful landscape. Many a Pakistani tourist has enjoyed frolicking on its...
The ‘Doha Debates’ is a brainchild of Tim Sebastian, the BBC award-winning journalist who rose to fame in the last decade as the host of BBC’s...
Bismillah Recently, the global Muslim blogosphere went on the usual defensive, as news of a “Muslim” media professional beheading his wife in a murderous rage did...
This is, in many ways, an awkward post for me. Admitting one’s mistake is not easy to do. Claiming that one’s past opinions were wrong –...
Photo: Contest organizer Khadra Mubarak, at right, goes over information about the Miss Beautiful Morals pageant at her office in Safwa, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Nissreen Aldar...
We haven’t forgot about Dr. Aafia, Have you? Muslim Matters obtained this heart wrenching transcript of Mr. Siddiqui’s speech at the Muslim Legal Fund of America’s...
It was my pleasure to write this article at the request of Shaykh Waleed Basyouni for distribution to students in his upcoming course, Fiqh of Love,...
As promised earlier in the week, here is the first instalment of our regular, weekly Islamic Art feature.
Polygamy Just the Ticket for Speeding: As though brothers don’t need another excuse for why they should get a second wife, it seems that in England...