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It has been related from Anas Ibn Malik, in Bukhari, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and give him peace, said: “Among the signs of the Hour (the end of this world), are the disappearance of knowledge, the establishment of ignorance, the drinking of wine and the appearance of fornication”. Abu Hurayra related from the Prophet, may …

We must look to the French Revolution if we are to understand the origin of the ideology and violence of the Islamic State. For some weeks now there have been insinuations that the Islamic State and its ideologies are some kind of throwback to a distant past. Frequently couched in language such as that used last week by British Deputy …

Spain surprised, without warning, by making public its intention to grant Spanish nationality on a discretionary basis to approximately a quarter of a million Sephardim, the Jews who were expelled from Spain during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, who were the promoters of the Inquisition tribunals. In principle, the Spanish decision is not at all surprising, …

We are all shocked and terrified by the images and news coming out of Gaza showing the burned and mutilated bodies of our Muslim brothers and sisters, men, women and children, trapped with nowhere to flee or hide, killed in their own homes with lethal bombs and missiles. The images break our hearts; and how could they not when it …

Introduction Life in the cities and the many occupations have led Muslim communities to make use of sheets and schedules that mark the time of the salawat. In them, two fields that were familiar since post-classical antiquity have coincided, with greater or lesser success: fiqh and astronomy. As is well known, the belief fostered scientific knowledge – particularly mathematics and …