Protests in Iran arise from the tension between anti-imperialist ideology, harsh sanctions, economic mismanagement, regional ambitions, and a restless youth demanding justice and renewal within an ...
These verses are often mischaracterised as permanently ambiguous. However, their lack of clarity is not intrinsic but contextual, rooted in the epistemological limitations of the original audience and ...
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The Quran Taught Tolerance For The Religions Of The “People Of The Book,” Which Referred To Christianity And Judaism. When The Arabs Encountered Buddhism, Although Its Followers Were Not Strictly ...
Waqf (plural: Awqaf) A ‘Waqf’ is a permanent dedication of movable or immovable property for purposes recognized by Muslim law as pious, religious, or charitable. Waqf is purely an Islamic concept of ...
Recently Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of Shia Waqf Board in Uttar Pradesh filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking to remove 26 verses from the Quran. In this petition he has said that these ...
Shah Abdul Aziz (d. 1824) acted as a bridge between medieval and modern times in India’s socio-religious and intellectual history. He emerged as a prominent figure among Indian Muslims after the ...
Quran 17:1, detailing the Prophet Muhammad's miraculous Night Journey (Isra) from al-Masjid al-Haram (Mecca) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa (Jerusalem), is traditionally understood as a divine miracle ...
Young Western women inspired to convert to Islam as war rages in Middle East A growing number of young, progressive Western women are converting to Islam, citing the Israel-Hamas war as motivation for ...
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (780–855 CE), the founder of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence, is a pivotal figure in Islamic intellectual history. His approach to Islamic law and theology is often ...
For an outsider, one way to recognise that you have left Tamil Nadu and entered Kerala is when cut-outs of J. Jayalalitha give way to street posters with signs of the hammer and sickle. But nowadays, ...
Noor—an Arabic-origin word etymologically meaning light and illumination— is one of the attributes of God in Islam. Allah is the light of heavens and the earth and is the only source of light, says ...