Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
The path of the People [al-qawm] is ardour and effort. Those who earnestly expend their effort obtain everything that they …
‘We give here some Divine injunctions handed down as Holy Traditions [ahadith qudsiyah], and sound hadiths. The Messenger of God, …
Said Samura, ‘The Emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) said, “For every Prophet there is …
“… related of Muadh Ibn Jabal (May God, Exalted is He!, be pleased with him), when he was asked by …
I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered, By my own inability to grasp the extent of his …
A beautiful poem I recently discovered written by the great Yemeni Sayid, Sufi and Shaykh Imam Abdullah Al-Haddad’s short qaseeda …