History

Had Sheikh Abdullāh Azzam been alive today, would the following have happened? Would there have been a 9/11? Would there have been ISIS? Would young Muslim men be travelling to Syria for ‘Jihad’ armed with boxes full of condoms? It is unlikely.

Did you know the pledge of Ibn Bādīs went on to become the motto of independent Algeria?

Al-Qassam devoted himself to moral reform, endlessly encouraging the community to keep regular prayers, maintain the obligatory fast, and strive to eradicate gambling and consumption of alcohol.

"It's time to stop blaming Britain, the Arabs or Zionists", argues Jahangir Mohamed, as he gives an alternate history of the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate.

100 years after the abolishment of the last caliphate, Sh Abdalhaqq Bewley looks at the governing blueprint drawn up by the most successful leader in history: the Prophet ﷺ

Although many know him as the founder of one of the original and most influential Islamic revivalist movements, Jamaat-e-Islami, did you know that Maulana Maududi was also part of establishing and running the Islamic University of Madinah?

Abid Mohammed gives us a surprising history of Muslims spearheading public immunisation, and how one Muslim Caliph in particular dealt with reluctance to vaccines in his time...

It is a disaster to think that controversial figures like Mother Teresa are more well known in Muslim households than Dr Abdul Rahman al-Sumait.

Before UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov claimed the title of the ‘Lion and Eagle of Dagestan’, there was one particular man whose legacy still resonates across the Caucasus region – a man who was greater and much more powerful in rank.

Moazzam Begg writes on the life and legacy of Zaynab al-Ghazali and why you need to know about her