History

Across the ages, continents and sciences, Muslims, even teenage Muslims, contributed to the scholarly fabric that has been passed down to us from generation to generation.

Hero worship – or at least the way we portray our historical figures – has been problematic, writes Dr Abid Mohammed. If we depict them as being superhuman individuals who never struggled in their lives, many Muslims will feel disconnected from their own heritage.

Ahmed Hammuda recounts one of the bloodiest massacres of unarmed protesters in recent world history, whose perpetrators are still at large...

Indeed, the path to liberation is long, and you and I may never see the end. But thank Allah, for what you saw in the last weeks was undoubtedly the beginning.

Read about the fabricated dogma that is fuelling today’s genocidal attempts upon worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque.

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