Authored by Umran Khan ‘There is no more significant pointer to the character of a society than the kind of history it writes or fails to...
Thirty years ago, Bosnia and Herzegovina were among the top causes of the Muslims; up there with Palestine, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, and other parts of the...
Behind the walls of a prisoner-of-war camp during World War I, Germany and the Ottoman Empire waged an unconventional battle: a fight for the minds and...
Sarah Kadir shares her turbulent spiritual journey to Islamic mindfulness, in the company of her hero, Imam al-Ghazali. When I started my research on Islamic mindfulness,...
Islam in Kashmir Kashmir, a Muslim majority region, marred with seven decades of conflict and suffering, has twin identities; one described by a famous poet Mahjoor...
Women’s history is human history: a simple enough statement, and yet, when we flip through the majority of history books, women’s stories remain glaringly in the...
“One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage” (collected and edited by Michael Wolfe) is a treasure trove: the chronicles...
I was raised in the Darul Islam movement; my father Shaykh Abdu-Karim Ahmad, was one of their Imams for a time in Philly. So was my...
The history of Black Muslims seems to be trapped between Bilal and Malcolm X. While these are particularly bright supernovas in the pantheon of giants from...
Changing the factual past in an attempt to gain political authority is one of the paradoxes of modern populism, where the target audience is presented a...
