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Study: Radicalized Muslims Have Little Actual Knowledge Of Islam...
Extremists and Islamophobes alike have attempted to paint violent factions within Islam as the true expression of the faith. But a new study gives credence to what countless Muslim leaders, activists and scholars have argued: that groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State are Muslim in name alone. A group of German scholars at the Universities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. The messages were exchanged among 12 young men involved in the attack. The attack itself was not identified in the report. Deutsche Welle noted that the timeframe suggested it may...
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Boxing Champ Launches Sports Hijab...
A boxing champion from the East End has created a sports hijab to help more Muslim women get into combat sports. Ruqsana Begum (below) – who is the current British female Atomweight Muay Thai boxing champion – runs personal training sessions and women-only sessions in the sport at the Osmani Centre in Whitechapel. She said: “I came up with the idea during the Olympics. I was interested in the story of an American athlete who was told she couldn’t compete wearing her hijab due to health and safety reasons, so her father created one that was approved for her to fight in. “I thought if they can create one...
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Is Islamic Law an Answer for Humanitarians?...
DUBAI, 24 April 2014 (IRIN) – Humanitarian action today is largely taking place in Muslim-majority countries where some combatants turn to Islamic law, among other sources, to guide their military behaviour. As a result, in the last decade, aid and advocacy agencies have increasingly tried to understand Islamic law in order to use its humanitarian provisions as tools of negotiation with armed groups in the Muslim world. This is particularly helpful in engaging Islamist armed groups, some of whom reject international humanitarian law (IHL). Some aid agencies try to situate their arguments for access or protection of civilians within a religious context, sometimes using scholars, mullahs or other religious...
Family Member of 9/11 Victims Converts to Islam
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The Art of Islamic War
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Qur’an: “Fight in the Way of God”?
Dr. Jamal Badawi explains the meaning and context of the Qur’an’s descriptions of “fight in the way of Allah.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnIs8BIXuk[/youtube]...
Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an
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Of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours
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Baghdad’s Golden Age and Its Legacy
January 19, 2006 Washington, D.C. A new book, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, takes readers back more than ten centuries to a very different time in the city’s history — when it was a place of magnificent palaces, intellectual innovation and far reaching political influence Much has been written about historical figures like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. But Hugh Kennedy, who teaches history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, believes far less information is available to readers outside the Middle East about the Abbasid caliphate that once made Baghdad a global power. He says the dynasty was as pivotal to world history in the 8th...
Muslim Girl Starts Magazine Geared Toward Muslim Girls
In the United States there are magazines that cater to many different topics of interest and segments of the population. Now there is a magazine that targets Muslim Girls. It is called MG Magazine and not only is it FOR Muslim girls; it is written and published BY Muslim girls. Today Yasmine El-Safy is getting ready to send the latest issue of MG Magazine out to its’ subscribers. Yasmine admits, “I can’t work up against deadlines. I get crazy”. Yasmine El-Safy is MG magazine’s founder, publisher and editor-in-chief. She is thirteen and a half-years-old. She says she started this magazine for Muslim girls because she couldn’t relate to anything in the mainstream media. She also states, “They were fluffy and they just...
Al-Andalus, Islamic World in Medieval Spain
May 20, 2004 Washington, D.C. After crossing from North Africa in the early seven-hundreds, Muslims ruled in southern Spain for almost eight centuries, interacting with the populations they found there. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke reports today analysts study the golden age of al-Andalus as a possible model for a modern pluralist society. Many medieval Spanish songs combine Jewish, Christian European and Arabic music traditions. A convergence of three distinct cultures marked almost every aspect of life in Islamic Spain: from economy, technology, science and medicine to philosophy, literature, art and architecture. Al-Andalus, or Andalusia, originated in 711, when an army of Arabs and Berbers crossed the Straits of Gibraltar to depose Visigothic ruler Roderic. They came as liberators, but...
At Home in the US Heartland: Two Muslim Families in Iowa
February 03, 2004 Cedar Rapids, Iowa It’s one of the oldest Muslim communities in the United States, and it’s right in the middle of the midwestern heartland: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s a state that is overwhelmingly Christian – yet recent immigrants as well as Muslims who were born here say they’ve found it a comfortable place to make their homes and practice their religion. Zeineb Mehdi, for example, grew up in Tunisia, and moved to Cedar Rapds 23 years ago. A devout Muslim, she serves on the board of the local Islamic Center, and attends prayers in the mosque there. But it’s her peace activism that has made Zeineb Mehdi well known in this small city – and...
The Concept of Jihad in Islam – Struggle for Inner Perfection
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Jihad is regularly misconstrued as war, with all its connotations of violence and bloodshed. However, in the Islamic context, and in literal sense, the word jihad simply means a struggle – doing one’s utmost to further a worthy cause. The actual Arabic equivalent of war, is qital, and even this is meant in a defensive sense. According to Islamic teachings, jihad is of two kinds. One is with the self (jihad bin nafs), that is, making the maximum effort to keep control over negative feelings in one’s self, for instance, arrogance, jealousy, greed, revenge, anger, etc. The psychological efforts to lead such a life of restraint is what jihad bin nafs is...
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