…from the regional planning commission for plans to build a 52,000-square-foot complex that would include a prayer hall or mosque, a swimming pool, playground, gym, and walking trail. ICM erected…
…of the greatest geniuses alive in the field of ʾuṣūl al-fiqh (methodology of jurisprudence) and is considered by some to even be a mujtahid (someone qualified to deduce new rulings)….
…Uighurs Religious News Service More than 130 American Muslim leaders and scholars have signed an open letter condemning the Chinese government’s continued persecution and detention of the mostly Muslim Uighur…
…Italy, a late journalist’s unapologetic Islamophobia is alarmingly mainstream. The new ruling class is rediscovering her as a prescient thinker. Read More From Turkish Islam to Turkish Salafism Ahval News…
…Mecca, other new institutions began to appear: The Saudi Scholastic Institute (“Maʿhad al-ʿIlmi al-Suʿudi”) in 1926-27, the College of Shariʿa in 1949, and the Teacher Training College in 1952. These…
…and ʿamal (righteous deeds), and their human exposition. Consequently, such economic concepts were not understood exclusively as commercial laws or transactions (muʿāmalāt), but rather these commercial laws were embedded in…
…Tetouan, hoping the northern Moroccan city might yield a more complete archive for bastila, an iconic pastry whose origins I had been researching for some time. By that point I’d…
Albany mosque co-founder Shamshad Ahmad remembered as community pillar and bridge San Fransisco Chronicle Shamshad Ahmad, the president of an Albany mosque, a community leader, and University at Albany professor,…
…divides into “the old school of literary criticism” and “the new school.” The old school crystalized in the tenth century, following the emergence of a new type of poetry (muḥdath)…
…The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have both characterized the new travel restrictions as another ‘Muslim Ban.’ Read More Student’s Company Fills Niche,…