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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 …