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The New Villains of Hollywood
After the Danish Cartoon crisis in 2005 many right wing and Islamophobic campaigns started to rear their ugly heads. Attacks on mosques, the minaret ban in Switzerland, the recent face-veil/burqa bans in Italy and Belgium and the fact that other places, such as Montreal, are considering following suit, are all a part of a not-so-new puzzle that needs to be solved by the modern world. It seems tha...
"American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender With
Although class and gender are critiqued as factors influencing the movement and interaction of women, race and ethnicity appear to be the chief informant for negotiations within the ummah. The concept of Muslim brotherhood and sisterhood is one that rests in the collective consciousness of Muslims the world over. In theory, this unity is perceived as a natural and logical by-product o...
African American perception of the Last Prophet
Whenever anyone would ask me what "type" of Muslim I was, I'd simply say, "I have no type. I'm just a Muslim." To this day, I avoid debates over madhabs like the plague and consciously remain silent during conversations harkening back to the glory days of Islam. As an African-American Muslim woman, I have always been conscious about the difference between how I have come to view Islam...
Training the Soul Beginning from the Body
The fasting person is a hungry person. The hungry person does not forget themselves, gravitating towards the external world and making it an object for themselves as those with full stomachs do. On the contrary, they turn towards themselves and become their own object due to their hunger.
Just as the person who always looks around rather than looking at themselves does not see that which is ...
Responsibilities for the Islamic Community
The meeting with the Turkish scholars was very interesting from many points of view. A group of Muslim intellectuals debating about Prophet Muhammad and the image of Islam in the West is something special today. We all know the problems cartoons about the Prophet which were published on September 30 2005 in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten; a few days ago they were reprinted in the Norwegia...
'We Should Just Be Ourselves'
Interview with Professor Is-haq Oloyede What are the indeficiencies in the Islamic world today? What are the responsibilities of the Islamic organizations face to the non-Islamic world as well as to the Islamic world? There are some of the issues which dominate most of the debates on going among scholars and politicians in the Islamic societies. Professor Is-haq Oloyede from the University of Ilo...
Prophet Muhammad: A Complete Example of Integrity
"I said to myself, ‘How pure Islam is!'" says Jakab György, a Hungarian convert, as he tells the story of his conversion to Islam. Born on Feb. 15 1974 in Budapest, Hungary, György notes that he has not lived a religious at all until the day he began to feel interestes towards the spiritual aspect of Islam. Having studied at a master's program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the European Univers...
Quicunque Vult: or, My journey to Islam
PART I In a former church, my heart is a mihrâb, Urging me to repent, the erasure of old but remembered sins. (Sünbülzâde Vehbî) Wild talk of a new Islamic hermeneutic hatching in the Muslim communities of the West has been with us for some years, with sadly...
Muslim Journalists Urged to Apply Prophet's Principles
Veteran Indonesian journalist Parni Hadi urged Muslim journalists to apply principles set out by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in their work to enhance their credibility. Addressing the International Islamic Media Conference in Jakarta on Wednesday, the former chief of Antara news agency also called for the establishment of an international Muslim media development center in Indonesia. ...
From Hamza Yusuf’s Viewpoint: What can the West learn from Islam
Hamza Yusuf calls attention to the prejudices of the Western world against Islam, as well as the attitude of Muslims towards the West, which is apparently biased. According to Yusuf, both the Westerners and the Muslims have to make themselves known to each other in order to eliminate the negative prejudices that accompany abstract concepts that are based on the "fallacy of personification". What ...
Reviving Islamic Art: A Conversation with Nushmia Khan
Nushmia Khan is a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur who has seamlessly blended her passion for Islamic heritage with her creative expertise. Founder of Silsila, a platform dedicated to preserving and promoting Islamic craftsmanship, Nushmia draws from her background in video journalism, photography, and design to create meaningful pieces that resonate with Muslims worldwide. Now based in Istanb...
The 'Black' Letters on the White Pages of Islam
The increased interest of African Americans in Islam has become one of the most confusing phenomena related to the spread of Islam in the United States. By and large, Islam is stereotyped by many students of religion and society as being a religion that has prejudiced black people. The voice of the advocates who negatively interpret the relationship between Islam and black people is becoming loud...
