Womenโs history is human history: a simple enough statement, and yet, when we flip through the majority of history books, womenโs 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...
Arabs โ during the time of the revelation- were known as an illiterate nation for whom the Prophet Muhammad ๏ทบ was sent from among themselves. Yet,...
Muslims have never gotten over losing Andalusia (Spain) to the Reconquista. No discussion about Islam and Europe can take place without us pining like BoAbdil –...
On the surface, there is little to connect the two books, but if you look past the exterior โ what we may realise is that the...
Tuesday, my son filled my heart with joy during his first-grade โWhat I am Grateful Forโ presentation. He began his speech with, โI am grateful for...
By Ghaithย al-Khatib [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he flags of the oppressors flutter in the wind, surrounding their increasingly desperate prey. More and more of them appear as the combined...