“O Messenger, deliver [to the people] what has been revealed to you from your Lord,…
Category: Islam
“Here again the whole body of Ismaili Gnosis may be taken as a guide. By…
The Arabic term ‘Eid’ translates into ‘celebration’ and ‘al-Adha’ as ‘sacrifice.’ Eid-al-Adha is celebrated as…
The term ‘Islamic art’ generally refers to the arts of regions where Muslims comprised ‘an…
The pilgrimage to Mecca gave rise to a rich genre of travel-writing. Pilgrims kept journals…
The Mosque of al-Qarawiyyin (Jami’ al-Qarawiyyin), near the Spice Market of Fez al-Bali in Morocco,…
The Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth has had a greater impact on Koranic research in Germany…
For almost 13 centuries, from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 to the…
Nizar Quhistani’s Diwan, 19th century copy, contains ten thousand verses.
In this lecture, Walid Saleh, Associate Professor and Chair of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto, discusses the status of the Qur’an in the 21st century.
In Islamic art, geometric patterns were combined, interlaced, and arranged in intricate combinations, thus becoming one of the most distinguishing features of the art.
The term ‘Islamic art’ generally refers to the arts of all Islamic cultures and not…
In this lecture, “Media, Muslims, and Free Speech,” Haroon Siddiqui draws on his 48 years of reporting and supervising coverage of Canada at the Toronto Star.
the rule of this jama‘at requires that during the whole of one’s life one is not permitted to abandon the true fast even for the twinkling of an eye.
The use of the term walāya, or spiritual authority, as generally employed by Shiʿi Muslims in connection with ʿAlī as their first Imam
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