Blissful Years of The Jews in The Ottoman State
The world has been the scene of many massacres and countless acts of genocide since mankind appeared on…
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Soldiers of Truth
Moths fly around the light of the inspired ones Whose hearts are as warm as the corona of…
A Companion of The Prophet: Talha ibn Ubaydullah
Returning to Mecca in haste after a trading trip to Syria, Talha asked his family: ’Did anything happen…
The Quranic Consept of History and Western Philosphies of History
I wonder whether it is a scepticism to see a political purpose behind some philosophies produced in the…
Transfer of technology from the Islamic world to the West
INTRODUCTION Technology is the tool of civilization, and for Islamic civilization to have been such a leading force…
A Companion of The Prophet: Sa’id ibn Zayd
Zayd the son of ‘Amr stood away from the Quraysh crowd as they celebrated one of their festivals.…
Racism : The destruction of humanity
In the April 1992 issue of Scientific American, Allan C. Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann published a study…
Al-Andalus: The Lost Civilization
How many people now know who Ibn Hazm, Al-Mu’tamid, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Ishaq al-Butruji were, or even where…
The Good, and the bad and ugly: Western Cinema Images
The image (rather than the word) has come into power as a result of technological possibilities not available…
The Main Factors in the Spread of Islam
Islam, in the tenth century, was the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of…
Lovers of the Light
One a clear night having fixed their hearts upon the Light they set out for eternity. And wherever…
A Mother’s Prayer
I was allowed to stay in hospital at my son’s bedside not as his mother but as a…
The Reach of Ardent Desire
Everything in our world of ardent desire and delight is rose-coloured And so absorbs us we can hardly…
Bishr b. Harith
All human beings are fallible, liable to err and to sin. This is true of even the most…
The end of Russian genocide
Relations between Turks and Russians can be understood in three stages: Turkic-Muslim hegemony, the period of Russian hegemony…