The Crescent and the Cross
The BBC has started a four part series, The Crescent and the Cross, which examines several turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa.
Let’s debate the theology of the burka
Farzana Hassan of the Calgary Herald was inspired by a phone debate on a Montreal-based radio station to investigate the theology of the burka and whether the Qur’an mandates it. He researched it and the Herald article discusses his findings. Click for the article. I don’t have any of my own photos of burqa or [...]
BBC In Our Time – Sunni and Shia Islam
On the BBC, 45 minutes long, link here. Melvyn Bragg and guests Amira Bennison, Robert Gleave and Hugh Kennedy discuss the split between the Sunni and the Shia. This schism came to dominate early Islam, and yet it did not spring at first from a deep theological disagreement, but rather from a dispute about who [...]
Muslim Girls Prom Night
The “Sister’s Prom” has become an annual event among Toronto’s Muslim community, and is also a symbol of the balance that defines the lives of modern young women like Ms. Hindy, born and raised in Canada, faithful to Islam. They have ambitions to be doctors, engineers and community leaders, while embracing the rules placed upon [...]
Pre-Flight Islamic Prayer on Jazeera Airways
I flew Jazeera Airways to and from Dubai last weekend. On the Islamic countries airlines such as Pakistan and Kuwait Airways and Jazeera, they play a pre-recorded Islamic prayer before takeoff. The one on Jazeera is very nice and meditative sounding. It would be nice to get a good recording of it. The plane is [...]
Love and Marriage
The Hadeeth narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, “Seven people will be shaded by Allah under His shade on the day when there will be no shade except His. They are: a just ruler; a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, (i.e. worship Allah (Alone) sincerely from his [...]
Fatimah, Mary and the Divine Feminine in Islam
The Sufi poetry teaches the feminine qualities of joy, love, tenderness and self sacrifice on a path of true knowledge derived from the spiritual heart. The spiritual rebirth of the individual is not unlike the trial and tribulation of physical childbirth, according to the Sufis. They take the principle of divine love and use it [...]
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