Feature Articles Archive
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Making of a martyr: From pacifism to jihad
Posted on May 4, 2003 | No CommentsAs the drizzle descended on Hounslow mosque last Friday, it was not hard to see why Asif Mohammed Hanif might have wanted to spend the summer in the Middle East -
Islam and the West
Posted on August 12, 2002 | No CommentsThe struggle of Muslims with and for modernity is taking place, not just in Cairo, Tehran and Islamabad, but also among Muslims living in the West. -
If you hate the West, emigrate to a Muslim country
Posted on October 8, 2001 | No CommentsHamza Yusuf is arguably the west’s most influential Islamic scholar. Many Muslims find his views hard to stomach, but he is advising the White House on the current crisis, and […] -
Terrorists are mass murderers, not martyrs
Posted on September 16, 2001 | No CommentsInterview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, published Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News -
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. -
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. -
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 -
The Wahhabi Who Loved Beauty
Posted on August 26, 1998 | No CommentsSpending three years in the desert heat of Saudi Arabia was for me a time of Ultimate Enlightenment, which raised the veil from the Umma’s most enigmatic and closely-guarded secret

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