“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...
Charles de Gaulle, the French President who led his country against Nazi Germany once famously said,”Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism,...
Just a few weeks ago, the Highest Court of the European Union ruled that member states can ban halal and kosher animal slaughtering; or allow it...
“[W]hen I barely knew how to speak Wolof, my mother tongue, I had been enrolled in a school to learn Arabic and the Qur’an. As it...
As tense and agonizing as these unending election days have been, it pales in comparison to the last four years. I plainly remember how it all...
The following excerpt is part of the introduction of a longer article that I am writing. I felt it merited being a separate article as well...
Life is Life. It is a battle against the sensory and base impulses that are within us all, manifesting at moments of trial, seeking to strip...
At one point of time, there used to be a mosque in Ayodhya. It stood tall and lofty for 470 long years, until a mob of...
Much emphasis has been given on the importance of fasting on the day of ‘Arafah, but don’t forget, this was a day the Prophet Muhammad (upon...
In 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama’s quote, ‘When they go low, we go high’, was first invoked in response to growing anti-black and racist sentiments hurled...