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Articles related to Muslim religion.
Interesting Facts about Muhammad The Prophet
Records reveal that Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullā, the founder of Islam was born in 570 CE. He is regarded as a prophet and the most important law-bearer of Islam. Muhammad restored monotheistic faith in Arabia...
Muslim Culture and Traditions
Islamic or Muslim culture and traditions are unique to Arabia. They were influenced by Mongol, Persian, Turkic, Berber, Indian and Indonesian cultures. The practices are the result of amalgamation of the Islamic empire...
Islamic Art
If you are interested in Islamic Art which exemplifies their immense faith in their Lord, read this article.
Being Muslim in America
American people of the Muslim faith face challenges in living within both their faith and their country, especially since 9/11.
When I Thought There Was No Way Out
My path to Islam, I believe, began the day I was born.
Seeking the Highest: What's your Goal ?
I hate clichés. How many times have we heard people say, "Don't aim low when setting your goals?" When people tell us this, does it really drive us to aim high? Or does it just sound like the old same rhetoric we've been hearing all our lives?
Relations Between Muslims and Non-Muslims
Islam has not left any aspect of life without its required guidelines. For each aspect, it sets a basic rule, which is in harmony with the basic rules of the other aspects, to indicate in the end, that there is only one Creator and one perfect Legislator. The basic rule usually functions as an axis around which the secondary rules and exceptions revolve.
When God Reached Out to Me (True Story)
This is a journey to Islam....I wish you love it.
I Knew God Would Take Care of Me
It is a true story...I wish you love it.
" The First Jewish Rabbi Convert to Islam "
It is the story of first Jewish who converted to Islam.
" The difference between God and Allah "
I think it is the time to know the difference between God and Allah.
Do you know who "ALLAH" is?!!
The name "Allah" is a word that is heard quite often those days whether it is on the television or passed along in conversation. But most non-Muslims have no idea who Allah is.
Islam And Virginity: Hymen Repair Surgery Controversy
The Lille court ruling in France highlights the challenges faced by many Muslim women who have become sexually emancipated while still retaining close connections with the traditional Islamic values upheld by their families. The tension arising from this, is never so intense than when it comes to matters of family honor, particularly as it relates to the importance of a daughter's virginity when entering into matrimony.
Islam in the Horn of Africa
Muslims make the majority in East Africa (IGAD member states) including Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Eritrea. Ethiopia, with 65% of Muslims and Christian leadership hides Muslim census and even treat badly. Kenya and Uganda with Christian majority remains neutral and treat their Muslim minority fair.
The 99 Beautiful Divine Names of Allah
Invoke angels and their power using the 99 Divine Names of Allah.
Islamic Creationism : According to Mr Yahya
The author of "The Atlas of Creation", Harun Yahya, is no fan of the theory of evolution. In fact his opposition to Darwin and all Darwin stood for is so visceral, he comes across as a-man-on-a-mission. He refers to the theory of evolution as "illusory, a lie, a deception" and a "perverted ideology."
Islamophobia : Silencing the Critics
There is a difference between legitimate criticism and bigotry. Slurs directed against Muslims are unacceptable in societies attempting to promote harmonious co-existence. The right to worship as one sees fit has to be protected. However when extremists use the cover of religion in order to promote a politicized agenda that threatens to put a damper on free speech, the artist has a right to respond.
Western Governments and Islam
Over the last decades the West has pampered the Muslims. The logic behind that behavior is flawed.
Islam, Violence and History
The use of force and the official endorsement of it have been a constant throughout the history of Islam.
Is The Media Commending Islamic Terrorists?
Is the media's perception of Islamic jihad correct?
Charting the Lost Innovations of Islam
Paul Lewis highlights a new exhibition that reveals the inventions made by the Muslim world.
Islam: the Cultural Aramaization of the Arabs
Islamization: Cultural arabization of the Aramaeans or Cultural aramaization of the Arabs? To answer the phenomenon of Islamic Terrorism, we must understand clearly what Islam was, and to what extent it has been misinterpreted by both, Colonial Powers and Islamic Terrorists.
Masr qabl al Islam (Egypt before Islam) - The Greatness of Ancient Egypt in its real dimensions
This book is indispensable to anyone wishing to evaluate the contribution of Egypt to the World History; it offers to the average Arabic readership an accurate and updated picture of the Greatness of Ancient Egypt, avoiding clichés and Orientalist denigrations.
Oromos among Waaqeffanna, Christianity and Islam
Nowadays, Waaqeffanna (an Oromo monotheistic Weltanschauung and wisdom tradition), Christianity and Islam are the three major doctrines that the Oromo people follow.
Sisters Take on Scholars in Battle for Islam
Zainah Anwar is a good Muslim. She is also an outspoken campaigner for women's rights. To many Muslim men in Malaysia and beyond, these two facts are barely compatible. Simon Tisdall
The Art Of Zafin Among The Arabs Of Southeast Asia
Music and worship in Islam. A rare musical event took place in Batu Pahat in Malaysia. There an Indonesian Hadhrami group performed zafin.
Islam 'does Not Mean Killing', Says Cleric
A leading Saudi cleric issued a plea today for Muslims not to heed calls to wage terror attacks in the name of Islam.
Get Off Your Knees
Afraid of being labelled Islamophobic, the left has fallen into an embarrassed silence on religion. We must speak up.
Sam Vaknin: Islam and Liberalism
Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology. It is all-pervasive and missionary. It permeates every aspect of social cooperation and culture. It is an organizing principle, a narrative, a philosophy, a value system, and a vade mecum. In this it resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism.
Europe Faces Up to Islam and the Veil
Muslims claim discrimination in legal battles over religious symbol. Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that on a bitter afternoon, they are queueing up on the pavement. Many went on the march. Most are against the law. A few are in favour, and happy to say so.
Granada Rediscovers Its Muslim Roots
Five hundred years after being hounded out by the Catholic monarchs Isabel and Ferdinand, Spain's Muslims have built a mosque overlooking what was once Islam's most important outpost in Europe, the Alhambra palace in Granada. The call to prayer of the muezzin can now be heard in the...
Muslim Wins Italian Court Ban on Crucifixes in Classroom
A Muslim rights advocate has scored a victory over the Catholic Church and conservative Italians, winning a court ruling that will remove crucifixes from the state primary school his children attend. "The presence of the symbol of the cross shows the will of the state to put Catholicism...
Villagers Try to Block Athens Mosque Plan
It was meant to showcase Athens as a modern, multi-ethnic city in the year that it stages the Olympic Games. Instead, a plan to erect the first mosque serving the capital since the end of Ottoman rule has unleashed a row pitting the reform-minded government against the Greek Orthodox Church.
Cleric 'approved Bombings'
A witness at the trial in Jakarta of Abu Bakar Ba'aysir, 64, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaida's south-east Asia network, claimed yesterday that the Islamist cleric had approved several terrorist attacks throughout the region over the past few years.
Raekha Prasad: Muslims Need Not Apply
The backlash from the war on terror on Britain's non-white population is growing. Applications to visit relatives in Britain from countries with large Muslim populations are twice as likely to be turned down than they were just over a year ago. Families in Britain's biggest ethnic minority...
Islam and us
Well, happy new year. Happy Islamic new year, that is - for yesterday was the first day of 1424. This is according to the Islamic calendar that operates in lunar years dating back to the prophet's move from Mecca to Medina in 622, Christian time. As a new year's gift, the west offers another crusade.
Turkey: A Muslim Nation
Our guide to the best links on the predominantly Muslim nation that hopes to join the EU.
US sells American dream to Muslims
America's efforts to convince the world that its war on terror is not a campaign against Islam has intensified with the launch in Indonesia of a global media drive extolling what wonderful lives Muslims can lead in America.
Houellebecq Acquitted of Insulting Islam
The controversial writer Michel Houellebecq was today found not guilty of inciting racism by calling Islam "the stupidest religion".
Cleric to face questions over church killings
The alleged founder of the extreme Islamist group that is widely thought to be responsible for the Bali bombings is to be questioned by police about a spate of attacks on churches nearly two years ago.
Cleric Sues Time for £70m Over Article
The Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of involvement in last week's attack in Bali filed a law suit yesterday claiming millions of pounds of damages from an American magazine which linked him to al-Qaida. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, is claiming a trillion Indonesian...
Fiery leader with a fanatical hatred of US
With a peppercorn goatee, oversized glasses and usually clad in white ankle-length robes and Islamic cap, Abu Bakar Ba'aysir, leader of Jemaah Islamiyah looks decidedly unthreatening.
Muslims told to speak Dutch in mosques
Islamic groups in the Netherlands have reacted with fury to a suggestion that only Dutch should be spoken in the country's 450 mosques.
Calling Islam Stupid Lands Author in Court
Michel Houellebecq, whose new novel Platform was released in Britain this month, appeared in a Paris court yesterday charged with inciting religious and racial hatred in an interview about the book, in which he dismissed Islam as "stupid". The charges, based on a complaint by the Islamic...
Martin Wainwright: Our debt to Islam
Teaching children how Muslim sages saved European philosophy could bridge a modern culture gap. Halfway down the old Band of Gold prostitutes' beat in Lumb Lane, Bradford, there is an Asian-owned chemist's shop advertising yunani tibb. Few people give the two words a second glance, but they are a key to a marvellous but scandalously little-known embrace between those uneasy and quarrelsome neighbours, Islam and the west.
Hamza Yusuf: Islam has a progressive tradition too
Most western views of Muslims are founded on ignorance. When a Welsh resistance leader was captured and brought before the emperor in Rome, he said: "Because you desire to conquer the world, it does not necessarily follow that the world desires to be conquered by you."
American people of the Muslim faith face challenges in living within both their faith and their country, especially since 9/11.
When I Thought There Was No Way Out
My path to Islam, I believe, began the day I was born.
Seeking the Highest: What's your Goal ?
I hate clichés. How many times have we heard people say, "Don't aim low when setting your goals?" When people tell us this, does it really drive us to aim high? Or does it just sound like the old same rhetoric we've been hearing all our lives?
Relations Between Muslims and Non-Muslims
Islam has not left any aspect of life without its required guidelines. For each aspect, it sets a basic rule, which is in harmony with the basic rules of the other aspects, to indicate in the end, that there is only one Creator and one perfect Legislator. The basic rule usually functions as an axis around which the secondary rules and exceptions revolve.
When God Reached Out to Me (True Story)
This is a journey to Islam....I wish you love it.
I Knew God Would Take Care of Me
It is a true story...I wish you love it.
" The First Jewish Rabbi Convert to Islam "
It is the story of first Jewish who converted to Islam.
" The difference between God and Allah "
I think it is the time to know the difference between God and Allah.
Do you know who "ALLAH" is?!!
The name "Allah" is a word that is heard quite often those days whether it is on the television or passed along in conversation. But most non-Muslims have no idea who Allah is.
Islam And Virginity: Hymen Repair Surgery Controversy
The Lille court ruling in France highlights the challenges faced by many Muslim women who have become sexually emancipated while still retaining close connections with the traditional Islamic values upheld by their families. The tension arising from this, is never so intense than when it comes to matters of family honor, particularly as it relates to the importance of a daughter's virginity when entering into matrimony.
Islam in the Horn of Africa
Muslims make the majority in East Africa (IGAD member states) including Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Eritrea. Ethiopia, with 65% of Muslims and Christian leadership hides Muslim census and even treat badly. Kenya and Uganda with Christian majority remains neutral and treat their Muslim minority fair.
The 99 Beautiful Divine Names of Allah
Invoke angels and their power using the 99 Divine Names of Allah.
Islamic Creationism : According to Mr Yahya
The author of "The Atlas of Creation", Harun Yahya, is no fan of the theory of evolution. In fact his opposition to Darwin and all Darwin stood for is so visceral, he comes across as a-man-on-a-mission. He refers to the theory of evolution as "illusory, a lie, a deception" and a "perverted ideology."
Islamophobia : Silencing the Critics
There is a difference between legitimate criticism and bigotry. Slurs directed against Muslims are unacceptable in societies attempting to promote harmonious co-existence. The right to worship as one sees fit has to be protected. However when extremists use the cover of religion in order to promote a politicized agenda that threatens to put a damper on free speech, the artist has a right to respond.
Western Governments and Islam
Over the last decades the West has pampered the Muslims. The logic behind that behavior is flawed.
Islam, Violence and History
The use of force and the official endorsement of it have been a constant throughout the history of Islam.
Is The Media Commending Islamic Terrorists?
Is the media's perception of Islamic jihad correct?
Charting the Lost Innovations of Islam
Paul Lewis highlights a new exhibition that reveals the inventions made by the Muslim world.
Islam: the Cultural Aramaization of the Arabs
Islamization: Cultural arabization of the Aramaeans or Cultural aramaization of the Arabs? To answer the phenomenon of Islamic Terrorism, we must understand clearly what Islam was, and to what extent it has been misinterpreted by both, Colonial Powers and Islamic Terrorists.
Masr qabl al Islam (Egypt before Islam) - The Greatness of Ancient Egypt in its real dimensions
This book is indispensable to anyone wishing to evaluate the contribution of Egypt to the World History; it offers to the average Arabic readership an accurate and updated picture of the Greatness of Ancient Egypt, avoiding clichés and Orientalist denigrations.
Oromos among Waaqeffanna, Christianity and Islam
Nowadays, Waaqeffanna (an Oromo monotheistic Weltanschauung and wisdom tradition), Christianity and Islam are the three major doctrines that the Oromo people follow.
Sisters Take on Scholars in Battle for Islam
Zainah Anwar is a good Muslim. She is also an outspoken campaigner for women's rights. To many Muslim men in Malaysia and beyond, these two facts are barely compatible. Simon Tisdall
The Art Of Zafin Among The Arabs Of Southeast Asia
Music and worship in Islam. A rare musical event took place in Batu Pahat in Malaysia. There an Indonesian Hadhrami group performed zafin.
Islam 'does Not Mean Killing', Says Cleric
A leading Saudi cleric issued a plea today for Muslims not to heed calls to wage terror attacks in the name of Islam.
Get Off Your Knees
Afraid of being labelled Islamophobic, the left has fallen into an embarrassed silence on religion. We must speak up.
Sam Vaknin: Islam and Liberalism
Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology. It is all-pervasive and missionary. It permeates every aspect of social cooperation and culture. It is an organizing principle, a narrative, a philosophy, a value system, and a vade mecum. In this it resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism.
Europe Faces Up to Islam and the Veil
Muslims claim discrimination in legal battles over religious symbol. Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that on a bitter afternoon, they are queueing up on the pavement. Many went on the march. Most are against the law. A few are in favour, and happy to say so.
Granada Rediscovers Its Muslim Roots
Five hundred years after being hounded out by the Catholic monarchs Isabel and Ferdinand, Spain's Muslims have built a mosque overlooking what was once Islam's most important outpost in Europe, the Alhambra palace in Granada. The call to prayer of the muezzin can now be heard in the...
Muslim Wins Italian Court Ban on Crucifixes in Classroom
A Muslim rights advocate has scored a victory over the Catholic Church and conservative Italians, winning a court ruling that will remove crucifixes from the state primary school his children attend. "The presence of the symbol of the cross shows the will of the state to put Catholicism...
Villagers Try to Block Athens Mosque Plan
It was meant to showcase Athens as a modern, multi-ethnic city in the year that it stages the Olympic Games. Instead, a plan to erect the first mosque serving the capital since the end of Ottoman rule has unleashed a row pitting the reform-minded government against the Greek Orthodox Church.
Cleric 'approved Bombings'
A witness at the trial in Jakarta of Abu Bakar Ba'aysir, 64, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaida's south-east Asia network, claimed yesterday that the Islamist cleric had approved several terrorist attacks throughout the region over the past few years.
Raekha Prasad: Muslims Need Not Apply
The backlash from the war on terror on Britain's non-white population is growing. Applications to visit relatives in Britain from countries with large Muslim populations are twice as likely to be turned down than they were just over a year ago. Families in Britain's biggest ethnic minority...
Islam and us
Well, happy new year. Happy Islamic new year, that is - for yesterday was the first day of 1424. This is according to the Islamic calendar that operates in lunar years dating back to the prophet's move from Mecca to Medina in 622, Christian time. As a new year's gift, the west offers another crusade.
Turkey: A Muslim Nation
Our guide to the best links on the predominantly Muslim nation that hopes to join the EU.
US sells American dream to Muslims
America's efforts to convince the world that its war on terror is not a campaign against Islam has intensified with the launch in Indonesia of a global media drive extolling what wonderful lives Muslims can lead in America.
Houellebecq Acquitted of Insulting Islam
The controversial writer Michel Houellebecq was today found not guilty of inciting racism by calling Islam "the stupidest religion".
Cleric to face questions over church killings
The alleged founder of the extreme Islamist group that is widely thought to be responsible for the Bali bombings is to be questioned by police about a spate of attacks on churches nearly two years ago.
Cleric Sues Time for £70m Over Article
The Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of involvement in last week's attack in Bali filed a law suit yesterday claiming millions of pounds of damages from an American magazine which linked him to al-Qaida. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, is claiming a trillion Indonesian...
Fiery leader with a fanatical hatred of US
With a peppercorn goatee, oversized glasses and usually clad in white ankle-length robes and Islamic cap, Abu Bakar Ba'aysir, leader of Jemaah Islamiyah looks decidedly unthreatening.
Muslims told to speak Dutch in mosques
Islamic groups in the Netherlands have reacted with fury to a suggestion that only Dutch should be spoken in the country's 450 mosques.
Calling Islam Stupid Lands Author in Court
Michel Houellebecq, whose new novel Platform was released in Britain this month, appeared in a Paris court yesterday charged with inciting religious and racial hatred in an interview about the book, in which he dismissed Islam as "stupid". The charges, based on a complaint by the Islamic...
Martin Wainwright: Our debt to Islam
Teaching children how Muslim sages saved European philosophy could bridge a modern culture gap. Halfway down the old Band of Gold prostitutes' beat in Lumb Lane, Bradford, there is an Asian-owned chemist's shop advertising yunani tibb. Few people give the two words a second glance, but they are a key to a marvellous but scandalously little-known embrace between those uneasy and quarrelsome neighbours, Islam and the west.
Hamza Yusuf: Islam has a progressive tradition too
Most western views of Muslims are founded on ignorance. When a Welsh resistance leader was captured and brought before the emperor in Rome, he said: "Because you desire to conquer the world, it does not necessarily follow that the world desires to be conquered by you."