YouTube link From the film’s website: Islamic Spain Explore the fascinating history of Islamic Spain, as well as the developments in science and cultureand arts and literature that paved the way for European discoveries and the Renaissance. However, none of this would have been possible without the cooperation and flourishing of different faiths and cultures under Muslim rule. A Lost…
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Many Muslims find Claire Khaw’s Secular Koranism congenial but unnecessary. After all, the Islamic way of life, complete with rules to live by a.k.a. legal principles and even some clear injunctions, is already based on the Qur’an, so why secularize it? But Khaw isn’t telling Muslims they ought to live by Qur’anic principles. We already know that. Her primary audience…
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by Salim Mansur Auden’s lines, “Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return”, recall the oldest counsel of the wise elders – the shamans, oracles, avatars, priests. In Vedantic scripture Auden’s lines is akin to the meaning of “karma”, the moral principle of consequence of consequence. Or inversely, as Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount,…
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Read the beautifully-illustrated original post at Paul Cudenec’s Substack By Paul Cudenec [Plus audio version] One of the great wonders of life, for me, is the way in which certain books find their way into my hands without me having actually looked for them – indeed, it feels as if it were they who were looking for me! Such was…
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The Muslim European GAVIN JOHN محمد جبريل SEP 27 Excerpts: Abu Al Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd, better known in the West as Averroes, certainly embodies the synthesis of the Islamic tradition and philosophical contemplation. He was born in Cordoba in 1126. He arrived at a time when the Islamic world was deeply entrenched within the intellectual inheritance of Greece. He…
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Originally published in German as Schätze des frühen Islam by Multipolar LIZA ULITZKA, September 21, 2026 (Google Translate, lightly edited for fluency) Islam is fundamentally fundamentalist—or so the common view goes. Yet, the very foundations invoked by the orthodox, Salafists, and Islamists contain little-known answers to contemporary problems. Let us consider Islamic history, the Quran, and the roles played by…
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Above image: Shaykh Omar al-Mukhtar, aka. Lion of the Desert, born around 1860 in the village of Zawiyat Janfur, Libya, emerged as a symbol of resistance against Italian colonization as a respected teacher within the Senussi Sufi order. Shaykh Al-Mukhtar led and organized and led guerrilla warfare against the Italian forces. He famously said, “As for me, I will live…
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Foreign Policy Archive.org From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly serves…
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Perhaps the West’s most original geopolitical thinker, Emmanuel Todd recognizes the centrality of religion in all societies, even (especially?) “post-religious” ones like today’s West. His work, which convincingly predicts the defeat and fall of the West, raises the question for Muslims: Which Islamic alternative (Murad Hoffman) should we work for as the Western influence over Muslim-majority societies recedes? The four…
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