This Ramadan, MuslimMatters reached out to our regular (and not-so-regular) crew of writers asking them to share their reflections on various ayahs/surahs of the Quran, ideally...
As we head to our local masjid this Ramadan, we will invariably find ourselves searching the bookshelves for a muṣḥaf, or a printed copy of the...
Black Muslims are an integral part of our Ummah, contributing to our communities in every way. From Islamic scholarship to humanitarian workers, from voices of justice...
Every single one of us is in need of the mercy and forgiveness of Allah ï·». All of us are guilty of some sort of mistake,...
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...