Editor’s note: Claire Khaw is one of Britain’s most provocatively iconoclastic thinkers. Imagine the reaction she gets, in certain quarters, from statements like: “…my purpose is to restore the patriarchy by means of establishing a one-party theocracy based on the Koranic principles that will replace the immorality of feminism.” Among the many post-9/11 Western reactions to Islam, hers is certainly…
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Watch the video at the Al-Andalus Tribune Substack Islamic Studies scholar Salim Mansur is a deeply knowledgeable, sincere, spiritually-engaged seeker of truth with the courage to face both the shortcomings, mistakes, and failures of today’s Muslim community, and the even more egregious failures of contemporary Western civilization—including the ones professors are not supposed to talk about, like the 9/11 false…
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Abbas From Divine Praxis Part 1: The Wretchedness of Poverty Part 2: Poverty and Capitalism Part 3: The Divine Sin of Poverty Excerpt: In Islam and especially Sufism, there is a focus on humility and living with little worldly attachments and opulence. Indeed, decadence and ill gained wealth can only obfuscate and veil the true spirit of Being-in-flux, leading to…
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Al-Andalus Tribune Substack By Kevin Barrett, for Al-Andalus Tribune It is said that by the invocation of God (dhikru ‘Lláh) a believer attains such peace of soul that the great terror on Resurrection Day cannot sadden him; how then could he be disturbed by whatever trials and misfortunes may befall him in this world? So be constant in the invocation…
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By Rabia for the Al-Andalus Tribune I have come back to my roots, my ancestors’ spiritual tradition. After many years of voluntary revolting self uprooted journey into unconsciously self-imposed but failed integration to the west. I have come back to the Hambra. Oh my Hambra! How much have I dreamed to be here! So Alhamdulillah I am! Alhambra the jewel…
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Rumble link Bitchute link Nautilus Ep. 1 – Linh Dinh – 280725 (*) Podcast description: Poet, writer and photographer Linh Dinh, exiled during the infamous 1975 Fall of Saigon, rose to literary fame in the US before becoming a world-wandering dissident legend. ‘Nautilus’ located him back in his native Vietnam, from where he shares his thoughts on rootlessness, exile, alienation…
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A Fajr Club Talk by Imam Marc Manley May 13 Sūrah al-Baqarah has many merits as al-Haythumī, the great scholar of ḥadīth, reports from his Mujmaʿ al-Zawāʿid, according to Ibn Masʿūd, لِكُلِّ شيءٍ سنامٌ وسنامُ القرآنِ سورةُ البقرةِ “For everything there is a pinnacle and the hump pinnacle of the Qur’ān is Sūrah al-Baqarah.” Here I want to mention the…
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