If we have fear of the West, we should keep that fear within reasonable limits. Our fear should not be so feeble...

Then I started thinking about those disputes that raged between individuals thirty or forty years ago – not to mention...

The reactions and counter-reactions that ensue from this have no limits. Extremism breeds extremism.

As Americans of all faiths we must recognize, marginalize and reject the divisive rhetoric of a vocal minority.

This page has supported construction of the center, whose name, Cordoba House, is taken from the Spanish city that stood for interfaith...

Direct eye contact is a skill Americans are taught will help them succeed in everything from negotiating for a used car to conflict resolution. The same is not true everywhere.

Is the “Ground Zero Imam,” Feisal Abd ar-Rauf, a moderate Muslim? I do not know. I have yet to read his books...

What began with the right-wing political campaign against the "Ground Zero Mosque," an Islamic community center...

The Jewish offense was rejection of Jesus. Islam’s offense boiled down to its character as “irrational and violent’’ in the standard Western charge.

Today German authorities have shut down the Taiba mosque, formerly known as the Al Quds mosque, in Hamburg. What took them so long?

This is a very important principle in the Shariah. The famous scholar Ibn Taymiyyah once wrote that it is part of the goal...

We can relate, ideologically, the modernist movement spreading these days to one sect in the past. This sect is called the Muta'zila,...

For the Battle of the Trench, the disbelievers mustered together a great force to come and attack Islam in its home in Madinah.

Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as "human shields"...

At the present time, the word "extremism" is probably the most incessantly repeated word on the tongues of journalists, writers, and politicians.

When it comes to the relations between “the West” and the “Muslim world,” there is no question that we are currently living in an environment...

We can relate, ideologically, the modernist movement spreading these days to one sect in the past. This sect is called the Muta'zila,...

Thus, it is the universality of its teachings that makes Islam the fastest growing religion in the world. In a world full of conflicts and deep...

Orientalists allege that the monotheistic influence on Islam was due to the presence of Christians and Jews in Makkah. They also suggested that there was a monotheist informant from one of those religions.

Are Muslims and the West bound to clash? Dr Jafar Sheikh Idris, professor of Islamic studies, Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences, Washington, gives an answer which supports the idea of peaceful coexistence.

A second sense of sunna is in the context of identifying textual sources, as when the Kitab, meaning the Qur'an, is contrasted...

First, Semitic culture in general and Arab practice in particular permitted polygyny. It was common practice in Arabian society,...

Through the centuries, orientalists have advance numerous accusations and far-fetched theories to discredit Islam and its last Prophet,...

Actually this question has been answered by the pals of Jochen a few centuries ago. And Jochen will not answer this because his motive...

When people hear that the prophet had many wives they conclude without much thought that the prophet was a sensuous man. However, a quick historical review of his marriages, proves otherwise.

The topic that I was asked to discuss here at McGill University is the elevation of the status of women in Islaam. Many, upon hearing the title of this lecture,...

Rasul Allah's wife, Umm Al-Mu'mineen Safiyyah bint Huyayy - radi'Allahu 'anha - was the daughter of one of the Jewish leaders of Madinah.

But what about the weird letter allegedly written by Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian hijacker-murderer with the spooky face, whose "Islamic" advice to his gruesome comrades ...

There are issues that I used to follow closely a while back and that would flare up from time to time. I used to refrain from responding to them, however.

The current Western obsession with the niqab, or full- face veil, often seems part of a subconscious plot to restrict anything Arab and Islamic,...