Updates: (1) Hat-tip to Umm Zaid for pointing to this article in NY Times, and the news that Abdullah Gul has stepped aside under undemocratic pressure...
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...
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...
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...
Chivalry: n. pl. chiv·al·ries a. The qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women. b. A manifestation of any of these...
A while back I wrote on my Houston Chronicle blog about whether or not Islam can be “reformed.” The post was written for non-Muslim readers, and...
Previous: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 The Earth’s Complaint (Final) 4. SANCTITY Another tenet in Islam’s weltanschauung or worldview concerns sanctity of life: both human...
Update: Lecture now downloadable, and full transcript included. Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh, I have uploaded an awesome lecture from TX Da’wah Convention 2006 about...
Zbigniew Brzezinski takes on this really meaningless mantra in The Washington Post: The “war on terror” has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush...