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The Physical Miracles of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ- Infographic

Conviction in the prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ is not dependent on his performance of miracles, but historically reliable reports of these miracles make their occurrence undeniable and increase one’s awe of the Divine...

Yaqeen Institute

The Inimitable Qur’an – The Revelation to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: The Proofs of Prophethood Series

This paper will simply provide an overview of some of the dimensions of the Qur'an's inimitable nature, while addressing “alternative explanations” posited by some critics in their attempts to deny the divine origins of...

Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

The Prophetic Promises for Martyrs and Medina: Is COVID-19 a Plague?

Introduction The number of people dying from COVID-19 is increasing at an alarming rate and Muslim communities are no exception to this reality.[1] In fact, Muslim doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers are...

Mufti Muntasir Zaman and Dr. Nazir Khan

The Black Muslim American Mayor in the Home of the KKK

Introduction In 1915, the modern Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist group was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The Klan was first formed during the Reconstruction years after the Civil War. This early...

Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid

Financing Kindness as a Society: The Rise & Fall of Islamic Philanthropic Institutions (Waqfs)

Note Last updated on August 24, 2020 Introduction From approximately the ninth century, roughly two hundred years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, charitable foundations and endowments (waqfs or awqāf)...

Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid

Who Wants the Caliphate?

Editor’s note This publication was scheduled for release before the news of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. In light of this news, we felt it even more important to release this paper to contrast...

Dr. Ovamir Anjum

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Muslims’ Collective Amnesia of the Ottoman Past—and Why We Should Reclaim Our History

Bismillah-ir-rahman-ir-rahim[1] Abstract The Ottoman dynasty, which emerged as a small beylik in Asia Minor after the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in the fifteenth century, became a major world power that not...

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed

All That We Lost: The Colonized Mind and the Decline of the Islamic Education System

Introduction In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful In a 2009 CNN documentary entitled Generation Islam, a segment dedicated to Islamic education in Pakistan stated: “Many madrassas teach a...

Faisal Malik

“We Used to Have No Regard for Women”: Gender Equity & the Advent of Islam

Introduction The status and rights of women are contentious issues within and across cultures. Opinions diverge for the most subjective of reasons, due to fluctuations in personal biases that are susceptible to changes...

Roohi Tahir, Dr. Omar Suleiman, Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy and Maryam Al-Dabbagh

The Physical Miracles of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: Proofs of Prophethood Series

To download the new e-book, The Final Prophet: Proofs for the Prophethood of Muhammad, click here. In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Grantor of Mercy Muslims believe that the Prophet...

Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy and Dr. Nazir Khan

Is it Cultural or Religious? The Role of Culture in Islam

We’re anti-evil, anti-oppression, anti-lynching. You can’t be anti- those things unless you’re also anti- the oppressor and the lyncher. You can’t be anti-slavery and pro-slavemaster; you can’t be anti-crime and pro...

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa, Dr. Omar Suleiman, Dr. James Wright and Dr. Nimo M. Abdi

How Islam Spread Throughout the World

Abstract Historians have widely discredited the narrative that the prevalence of Islam in the world today can be explained as a result of forced conversions. Without denying that there may have been some exceptional...

Hassam Munir