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Daily News Analysis

Al-Saud tribe to bulldoze more Islamic sites in Madinah

Crescent International

Dhu al-Hijjah 12, 14332012-10-28

In 2007 the palace “scholar” Abdulaziz al Sheikh called for the demolition of the graves of Prophet Muhammad (saws) and his two companions buried beside him, Abu Bakr (ra) and Umar (ra).

Main Stories

Channel 4 documentary exposes British media’s anti-Islam hatred

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

Fake historian distorts history to attack Islam in the most scandalous way and Britain’s channel 4 provides him air time. Islamophobia is now official policy in much of the western world.

Opinion

Rethink history: undo sectarianism

Abu Dharr

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

Sectarianism exists on both sides of the divide. It is imperative to understand the root problems to overcome it, urges Abu Dharr.

Opinion

The critical truth of our history deflates sectarianism

Abu Dharr

Shawwal 14, 14332012-09-01

How historical baggage has smothered Muslim minds to sink into sectarianism while ignoring the teachings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah.

Special Reports

Journey to Fes, the heart of Morocco’s spirituality

Zainab Cheema

Shawwal 14, 14332012-09-01

There is immense Islamic history woven into Morocco’s social and cultural fabric. Zainab Cheema captures the essence of spirituality on her journey to Fes.

Editorials

How the wheel of history has turned

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 09, 14332012-04-01

It was the beginning of the seventh year of the Hijrah. Only a few weeks earlier, the noble Messenger (pbuh) had concluded the Treaty of Hudaybiyah with the chiefs of Makkah.

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News & Analysis

Turkey between neo-Ottomanism and secularism

Our Own Correspondent

Jumada' al-Ula' 09, 14332012-04-01

As Turkey’s hopes of becoming the leading power to restore Muslim public identity and its own Islamic socio-political distinctiveness gradually fade away from Muslim memory, it is important not to exaggerate the deviations of contemporary Turkey.

Audio

The Prophet's (S) quest for a base Part 2

Muhammad H. al-'Asi

Dhu al-Hijjah 29, 14322011-11-25

We will continue to accompany Allah’s Prophet and to understand where we have in the past failed to understand him. In the past hundred, two hundred years we suffered from a failure in understanding him. We seek to rehabilitate ourselves, to refresh our minds (and) to energize our conscience (and) to understand what he stood for. The Prophet of Allah, we all know, reached a time in which it was no longer possible to have a peaceful of even a normal relationship between him and those who are with him on one side in Makkah and the rest of Makkah on the other side. There comes a time when this has to happen. If this doesn’t happen in our lives then there is a failure on our part to fulfil the character of Allah’s Prophet which he left for us.

Opinion

Reminding Muslims of the deliberately ignored duty at Hajj: bara’ah min al-mushrikin!

Abu Dharr

Dhu al-Hijjah 05, 14322011-11-01

It is that time of the year again. Muslims from far and near prepare themselves for the lifelong journey to Ibrahim’s (a) final destination, to the emigre home of Hajar, to the life-threatened birth of Isma‘il (a), to the expatriate city of Muhammad (pbuh) and to the cradle of Islam — to Makkah al-Mukarramah.

Opinion

Saudis resort to crude sectarianism to create divisions in the Ummah

Abu Dharr

Jumada' al-Ula' 27, 14322011-05-01

Sectarianism has been a time tested tool in the hands of illegitimate rulers since the Islamic institution of khilafah was subverted into mulukiyah nearly 1,400 years ago. Today, the illegitimate rulers of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are using this weapon to divert attention away from their oppressive policies and subservience to the West and to Zionist Israel.

Islamic Movement

Illegitimacy, Islamic movement and revolution: basis of social action

Perwez Shafi

Rabi' al-Thani 27, 14322011-04-01

In Part 1 of his analysis of the Islamic political and decision-making apparatus, Dr. Perwez Shafi, a director of ICIT stationed in Pakistan, offers some thoughts on the question of legitimacy and its relationship to political and social change brought about by a revolutionary Islamic movement.

Editorials

Turkey’s bold political moves

Zafar Bangash

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Turkey has always been an important player in the Muslim world. During Ottoman rule, it was the leading edge of the Islamic world. Its armies marched triumphantly into Europe reaching the gates of Vienna in 1683.

Special Reports

Islamic revival in Bosnia: a closer look

Maksud Djavadov

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Maksud Djavadov, researcher and analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), visited Sarajevo in August 2010 to conduct field research and examine the current situation of Islamic revival there.

Islamic Movement

Hizbullah: a brief historical overview

Siraj ul-Deen

Ramadan 22, 14312010-09-01

By the 1990s, the civil war had ended. Hizbullah was better able to focus its energies on expelling the Zionist Israelis from the South.

Special Reports

Reflections on the creation of Pakistan in the context of Muslim history

Iqbal Siddiqui

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

Almost every statement in the above paragraph, except perhaps for the simple statement of fact with which it starts, could prove the subject of heated debate.

Opinion

A tribute to Imam Khomeini

Abu Dharr

Jumada' al-Ula' 16, 14312010-05-01

You taught us that Muslims are capable of having an imam contrary to the beliefs of the traditional “Shi‘is” who maintain that there can only be one...

Islamic Movement

Imam Khomeini in contemporary Islamic history

Iqbal Siddiqui

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

Imam Ruhullah Musawi al-Khomeini (September 24, 1902 to June 3, 1989) is among those iconic figures of history about whom everybody thinks they know much more than they actually do.This month, to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Imam Khomeini, Crescent International and the Islamic Books Trust, Kuala Lumpur, have published a book of essays on the Imam’s life and thought. Here we present an abridged version of the introduction to that volume, written by former Crescent editor Iqbal Siddiqui.

Guest Editorial

Parallels between the early history of Islam and the contemporary historical situation

Abu Dharr

Rabi' al-Awwal 24, 14292008-04-01

In the early years of Muslim history we had most of the political pulses that we have today. Not many Muslims, not even many intellectual Muslims, are willing to examine human nature, cultural influences, social trends and political priorities fourteen hundred years ago as well as today.

Islamic Movement

Remembering the great tradition of Sufi jihadis in Muslim history

Fahad Ansari

Rabi' al-Awwal 24, 14292008-04-01

In the contemporary Ummah, Sufism is often associated with apolitical, pacifist Islam of the type that the West would like to promote as “true Islam” all over the Muslim world. FAHAD ANSARI looks back at the great tradition of jihadi Sufis in recent Muslim history.

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