By: Lara Gibson | Date: June 13, 2025 | Newarab.com On a drive from Valencia to Alicante, I noticed a striking pattern — many place names sounded Arabic. I drove past towns called ‘Alfafar’, ‘Algemensi’, ‘Alcàsser’, and ‘Alzira’. That’s no coincidence: Alicante, for example, stems from al-Laqant, a name dating back to the Al-Andalus period when Arabic was the lingua…
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By: The Usuli Institute | Date: August 15, 2025 | Youtube.com Current analysis on Palestine, Netanyahu’s Greater Israel plans, and Marco Rubio’s dangerous intentions. Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl delivers the Friday sermon at The Usuli Institute (15 August 2025). 2ND ANNUAL USULI CONFERENCE SOON! OCT 10-12 IN COLUMBUS, OH https://www.zeffy.com Watch the full video
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Political science professor emeritus Salim Mansour discusses his 2017 book The Qur’an Problem and Islamism. In it, he argues that power-hungry people have long been politicizing the Qur’an by championing their own (often simplistic) interpretations and demonizing other interpretations, from the time of the First Fitna to our own era, and that the results have generally been disastrous. But does that mean that…
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By: Cecilia Butini | May 14, 2025 | Hyphenonline.com Today, the 2.5 million Muslims living in Spain are concentrated in big cities such as Madrid and Barcelona — but in almost every corner of the country, you’ll find hidden and flamboyant Islamic architecture. For almost a millennium, the Iberian peninsula was part of a flourishing Muslim kingdom whose heritage runs…
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By: Zahir Ibrahim | Date: July 31, 2025 | Mindagent.substack.com This is a Passage from the Preamble: All have wondered about God from time immemorial regardless of their beliefs and culture mainly in relation to the first question that comes to any conscious mind on our own existence—“where do we come from”—which eventually leads to: “where does God come from”. That question…
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By: Cecilia Butini | May 29, 2025 | Hyphenonline.com On Sunday 18 May, Pope Leo XIV held his first official mass in St Peter’s Square, attended by some of the world’s most powerful figures including US vice-president JD Vance, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. The next day, he met leaders from the other…
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By: Sheikh Imran Hosein | Date: July 1, 2025 | YouTube.com There is a world of difference between KNOWING ‘time’ and TASTING ‘time’. We distinguish in these lectures between secular mechanical ‘time’ of Dajjal’s modern West, and the system of sacred ‘time’. At the heart of the system of sacred ‘time’ is the imperative of living in harmony with ‘time’…
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By: The Usuli Institute | Date: June 20, 2025 | Youtube.com Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl provides an in depth analysis on geopolitics and Iran in this Friday khutbah or sermon at The Usuli Institute on 20 June 2025. Then he ties this reality into ethical lessons from Islam. Watch the full video Watch Dr. El Fadl apologize (in a 2017…
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By: Katy Gillett | June 4, 2025 | Thenationalnews.com As millions of pilgrims arrive in Makkah for Hajj, a small group of riders have completed one of the most extraordinary journeys of the year: retracing a route taken by Andalusian Muslims to the Holy City more than 500 years ago by travelling from southern Spain to Saudi Arabia on horseback. Abdelkader…
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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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