By: The Muslim Skeptic | Date: June 26, 2025 | Youtube.com Will the US government treat the Jewish community the same way they’ve treated Muslims for the past 25 years? Watch the full video
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The extinction of the Zahiri doctrine in Al-Andalus and the Islamic West (Maghreb): Political, Social, and Jurisprudential Factors
By: Soukaina Ait-Elfakih | Islamonline.net The influence of the Islamic East persisted over the Islamic West and Al-Andalus until the political separation of both regions. Subsequently, the Islamic West and Al-Andalus emerged as new entities, embracing a distinct Fiqh doctrine and political strategy compared to the East. The jurisprudential mentality formed in Al-Andalus and the Islamic West in the Maliki…
Read MoreEchoes of Al-Andalus: Understanding the rebirth of Arabic language and culture in present-day Spain
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…
Read MoreThe Dream of Greater Israel and Messianic Zionism ~ Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl
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
Read MoreProf. Salim Mansour on “The Qur’an Problem and Islamism”
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…
Read More5 pieces of architecture that show how Islamic culture is built into Spain
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…
Read MoreAI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Questioning of God
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…
Read MoreEurope’s Muslim leaders express hope that Pope Leo will be a peacemaker
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…
Read More“Swimming in the River of Time”. Jember Muharram 2, 1447.
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’…
Read MoreWhat to Learn from the Ironies of Today ~ Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl
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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