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“There is no god but God” was, for Muhammad, far more than a profession of faith. This statement was a conscious and deliberate attack on both the Ka‘ba and the sacred right of the Quraysh to manage it.

when people are focused on the purpose behind a minyan, rather than the continuation of the minyan as an institution, then that minyan has a better chance of furthering its underlying goals.

The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is one, for the Truth is one. It was the religion preached by all the earlier prophets. It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the

But Muhammad, not wishing to ally himself with any particular clan in Yathrib, refuses their offers. “Let go her reins,” he commands. The crowd backs off, and Muhammad’s camel staggers forward a few more steps. It circles an abandoned burial ground now used for drying dates, then stops and kneels, lowering its neck for the Prophet to dismount. Of t

That, in essence, is the foundation of the so-called Muslim women’s movement, which is predicated on the idea that it is male-dominated society, not Islam, which has been responsible for the suppression of women’s rights in so many Muslim-majority states. For this reason, Muslim feminists throughout the world are advocating a return to the society

Doctrinal insights were meant to be carried relationally, not discovered in the think tanks of denominational seminaries.

As the Crusades drew to a close and Rome’s attention turned away from the Muslim menace and toward the Christian reform movements cropping up throughout Europe, the classical doctrine of jihad was vigorously challenged by a new generation of Muslim scholars. The most important of these scholars was Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328), whose influence in shapi

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fight the Pagans all together as they fight you all together. But know that Allah is with those who restrain themselves.