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Who are you in the New Millennium?
Posted on January 1, 2000 | No Comments1 January 2000, World: Nothing but the sound of waves foaming against black volcanic rock. -
The Spider Web
Posted on January 1, 2000 | No Comments'The likeness of those who have taken guardians other than Allah, is as the likeness of the spider that builds the web; surely the spider's web is the weakest abode, if they but knew?' -
The Millennium Bug
Posted on December 31, 1999 | No Comments'Allah does not refrain from presenting the parable of a bug - or even something smaller.' -
1099-1999: Remembering the Tragedy of al-Quds
Posted on October 9, 1999 | No CommentsBy the solar calendar, July 1999 represents the nine hundredth anniversary of the Crusader sack of Jerusalem. -
When the Generous appears with the Name Avenger
Posted on August 28, 1999 | No CommentsPerhaps this could be the epitaph of the traditional Islamic world. Many Muslims still adhere to aspects of the Qur’anic message; but there seem to be whole sections of the revelation which we read, formally, but fail to digest. -
Puncturing the Devil’s Dream About the Hadiths of Najd and Tamim
Posted on August 16, 1999 | No CommentsIt is striking that not one of the great muhaddiths, mufassirs, grammarians, historians, or legists of Islam has emerged from the region known as Najd -
The Jihad of Imam Shamyl (Chechnya)
Posted on June 1, 1999 | No CommentsThe Chechen peoples desperate struggle for freedom has taken many Muslims by surprise. -
Islam, Irigaray and the Retrieval of Gender
Posted on April 20, 1999 | No CommentsThe Prophet said that women totally dominate men of intellect and possessors of hearts -
The Sunnah as Primordiality
Posted on April 20, 1999 | No CommentsTwentieth-century Western art is not a subject for which we Muslims have much time. -
Ramadan in Madina
Posted on February 15, 1999 | No CommentsThe approach to Makka lies through mountains, sharp, unforgiving angles of granite. The road to Madina passes through great plains of basalt
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