Arab Muslims

would be a typical book written by many Muslim reverts where they would just describe their experience before and after becoming a Muslim. However, as I read the preface which is a habit in order to know the writer’s purpose and set my own intention of the book, I knew that Jeffrey Lang is not typical reverts. The book answers my questions, argues my existing principals and promotes me into thinking deeper about experience of being a Muslim and how non Muslims perceive Islam. Thus, this…

Children of Dust by Ali Eteraz allows every reader a very intimate understanding of one Pakistani man’s upbringing under the veil of Islam. He provides a unique perspective when telling the story of growing up in a Muslim family that fundamentally believed Allah to be a prodigious leader of Islam. Even though his adolescent years were spent growing up in the “Bible Belt” of the United States, retained his identity; believing he had been given a great responsibility years before he was even born.…

where tribalism played a major role in how the Arabs have perceived and reproduced the world around them accordingly (Barakat 1993). Such imageries and fictive genealogies are not exclusively found among the Arabs. In a similar fashion, Benjamin Disraeli, the leading Tory statesman and prime minister under Queen Victoria, has projected his Semitic pride by claiming the Arabness of the Jews. Disraeli considered the Jews to be an “Arabian tribe,” and the Arabs to be “only Jews upon horseback”…

Islam has emphasized on several principles that organize relationships among contributors of the society. one of the most vital principles is social justice with all crucial values that it is like peace, love, brotherhood, and prosperity. Justice in Islam is not most effective practiced on Muslims.as a substitute, it's far practiced on each human being regardless to his/her ideals or religion. Social justice means giving each person what he/she merits, the distribution of economic blessings…

Irshad Manji met over an interview and bonded immediately due to their passion for the same cause. They are two Muslim rebel’s sisters who are against radical Islam. Both have been targets for death threats due to their support for the feminist movement and for their rebellion against Islam and require constant protection. Ms. Hirsi Ali rejects Islam while Ms. Manji is a practicing Muslim who is against Sunni Islam. She aims to reform some of the bias teachings of Islam and states that there is…

million Dirhams” [i]. Literally speaking, Hajj means heading to a place for the sake of visiting. In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to Kaaba, the ‘House of God’, in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is obligatory for every Muslim to perform Hajj at least once in their lifetime provided that he/she is physically and financially able to do so. The rites of Hajj, which go back to the time of Prophet Abraham who built Kaaba after it had been first built by Prophet Adam,…

This book name is Muhammad: The Ideal Prophet A Historical, Practical, Perfect Model for Humanity from a work by a scholar of Maulana Sayyid Sulaiman Nadwi. This volume is a compilation of lectures given by the author in 1925 at Madras, India. In these lectures the author vividly presents the life of the Prophet as an abiding historical model - not a utopian ideal - for all humanity. This book is a must for every student of religion. And English translation by Mohiuddin Ahmad from Malaysia.…

through, and made it their home. Those included Persians, under Darius the Great as well as the Greeks who were brought over by Alexander the Great; this all come about around 323-522 BCE. Throughout 699-700 Islam became a part of Afghanistan, due to an Arab invasion in Kandahar. Within the 13th century, Genghis Khan (the founder of the Mongol empire) invaded Afghanistan; this led to Indian and Persian empires fighting over Afghanistan for hundreds of years. Ultimately, in the 18th century…

The Fatimid Caliphate (ad-Dawlah al-Fāṭimiyya) was an Ismaili Shia Caliphate, it lasted from the year 909 to the year 1171 and eventually fell when its last Caliph (Al Athid or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ) died, making place for the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt and Syria under Saladin. The Fatimid Caliphate was the only Shi’a Caliphate, it was tied to the Ismaili branch of Shi’a Islam, the belief is centered around Isma’il, the son of Ja’Far As-Sadid, the sixth Imam and seventh…

resources a person would not need to know Arabic to learn how to perform the prayers. When I forgot how to perform the day prayers I simply googled “how to pray five times in English translation” and found many videos on how to pray. Even though I am Muslim and follow Islam, I would like to know how other religion beliefs are. Whether if they have spiritual people or religious people, it would be nice to explore other religions and learn cultural and historical pieces that constructed the…