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Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (603-680 CE), the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, remains one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in the annals of Islamic history. His transition from the ...

The Muslim world’s scientific glory peaked during the Islamic Golden Age, but declined due to political instability and a lack of economic integration. A ban on import of printing presses for close to ...

This is a supplement to my article, “Should Science And Religion Be Kept Apart?” In that article, I had quoted Dr Salam as follows: Dr Salam was sitting with his scientist friends among whom were ...

Congress president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad gave the following interview to journalist Shorish Kashmiri for a Lahore based Urdu magazine, Chattan, in April 1946. It was a time when the Cabinet Mission ...

A senior civil servant friend has been complaining to me for quite some time that vicious, fake anti-Muslim messages are circulating on WhatsApp that somehow inspire belief among his well-educated ...

This study on the spread of Islam in Kerala examines the arrival and growth of Islam in Kerala and other reasons that drove it. The spread and growth of Islam in Kerala from the advent of Islam to the ...

We have been told various stories about Sufism to discredit it on religious, ethical, political and other grounds. The Sufis in turn assert they are the most sincere and loyal to the essence of Islam ...

“However, the love expressed by some Sufis is more perplexing. Take, for instance, Amir Khusrau’s devotion to Hazrat Nizamuddin, where he casts himself as the yearning lover and Nizamuddin as the ...

1. Islamic narrative says that the third caliph Uthman canonized the Quran. 2. But Uthman was killed in his own house by fellow Muslims; apparently, he never had the moral authority or the political ...

The following table is a summary of the similarities and differences between the Deobandi, Barelvi and the so called Wahhabi. The Wahabi’s are being referred to as ‘the so called Wahhabi’ since no ...

The Prominent Prophets Mentioned In The Quran Who Precede Abraham Are Adam, Idris, Noah, Hud, And Saleh Who May Be The Precursors Of Every Significant Scripture-Based Religious Tradition In The World ...