identity, conflict, traditions, and human behavior
By: Gwendydd Vaillié | June 6, 2025 | Yabiladi.com With 17.4 million visitors in 2024, Morocco has become Africa’s top tourist destination, breaking records year after year. But at what cost to the land and its people? On the International Day of Responsible Tourism, voices like Said Marghadi’s—founder of the Touda ecolodge in Aït Bouguemez—call for a new approach that puts…
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By Xu Lin | May 30, 2025 | China Daily China and Tunisia have created an enduring legacy through vibrant artistic and trade exchanges across centuries, Xu Lin reports. China’s over 5,000-year civilization, with its diverse elements that have formed a unity, and Tunisia’s layered heritage — rooted in indigenous Berber traditions and overlaid with Phoenician, Roman and Arab influences…
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By: Kirti Sharma | Date: June 2, 2025 | Jagranjosh.com Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day – 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as “Arabic numerals,” that they were developed in the Arab world. This is a popular myth!…
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By: Bheria | Date: May 29, 2025 | Muslimskeptic.com I learned relatively late, just a month or so ago, that Yahya Michot had returned to his Creator the day after ‘Id al-Fitr. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. Though his name might not be widely recognized among the Muslim masses in the Anglosphere, Yahya Michot was a very significant figure…
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By: Moe Elhossieny | Date: May 28, 2025 | Itsnicethat.com In 1922, King Fuad I established the Khalil Agha School for Arabic Calligraphy in Cairo as part of a broader effort to modernise Egypt. Aside from the school’s role in preserving the practice, institutionalising it was a move to assert Egypt’s cultural sovereignty in the wake of independence. Since then,…
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Editor’s introduction: Most Islamic scholars today consider tobacco haram. The two leading reasons are: 1) The Harm Principle (Qur’an 2:195 – “Do not throw yourselves into destruction”) Smoking is proven to cause cancer, heart disease, and premature death. Based on this, many scholars now consider it haram due to its clear and significant harm to the body, which violates the Islamic principle of preserving life.…
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Imam Marc Manley The Month of Ḥajj is now upon us and there’s so much to consider. I will share a short reflection on this passage of the Qur’ān which is likewise named after the Month of Ḥajj. Allāh says, وَإِذْ بَوَّأْنَا لِإِبْرَٰهِيمَ مَكَانَ ٱلْبَيْتِ أَن لَّا تُشْرِكْ بِى شَيْـًۭٔا وَطَهِّرْ بَيْتِىَ لِلطَّآئِفِينَ وَٱلْقَآئِمِينَ وَٱلرُّكَّعِ ٱلسُّجُودِ “And remember when We…
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By Dr Nathaniel Miller | May 24, 2025 https://classyarabic.substack.com/p/why-medieval-muslims-travelled-so The notion that one should travel in pursuit of knowledge is deeply embedded in Arabic and Islamic culture. The Arabic word for “student”, ṭālib, means seeker, an abbreviation of ṭālib al-ʿilm, or “knowledge-seeker.” That this seeking implies travel is evident in the Prophetic statement (hadith) uṭlubū al-ʿilm wa-law bi-ṣ-ṣīn—”seek knowledge (al-ʿilm),…
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From the book Muhammad: The Ultimate Leader From Western Business Perspectives By Daud Batchelor Chapter 1: The Most Influential Person Who Ever Lived Of five non-Muslim biographers cited by Khalid Yassin, who had studied leaders throughout human history, three of them determined that the most profound human being who has impacted on humanity was none other than the Prophet of…
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By Taj Mahal Taj Mahal-Official Website of Taj Mahal, Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) Agra, an old heritage city on the bank of the river Yamuna, finds mention in the Epic Mahabharata as Agravan. Ptolemy, the famous 2nd Century Geographer, marked it as Agra on the World map. It is generally accepted that Sultan Sikandra Lodi, the Ruler of Delhi…
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