Articles
Biography of the Scholars
A rare interview profile of Dr Taqī ad-Dīn al-Hilālī, tracing his remarkable scholarly journey from Morocco to Egypt, India, Makkah, Germany, and Iraq, in pursuit of the science of ḥadīth.
Biography of the Companions
The extraordinary account of ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, who sought out the Prophet ﷺ in secret during the earliest days of Islam, and the profound teachings on prayer, wuḍūʾ, and sincerity that he preserved for the Ummah.
Islamic History
A reflection on the Qurʾānic principle that Allah alternates power, fortune, and hardship among people, illustrated through the rise of the humble and the fall of the mighty across Islamic history after the age of the Salaf.
Biography of the Scholars
How two titans of the Salafī tradition closed the door of discord in forty years of unbreakable brotherhood Introduction Among the most instructive episodes in the modern history of Salafī... Read More
Biography of the Salaf
The untold story of how scholarly envy, theological politics, and a single question about the Qurʾān drove the greatest muḥaddith of his age from one of Islam's foremost cities.
History and Biography
In the eighth century, a Chinese soldier captured in battle travelled deep into the lands of the Arabs - and what he recorded remains one of the most remarkable outside testimonies to early Islamic civilisation
Islamic History
When Life Turns: Classical Wisdom on the Brevity of Life and the Swiftness of Change
Biography of the Scholars
The grammarian Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī recounts how Sībawayh's wife, consumed by jealousy over his devotion to scholarship, burned his manuscripts, and how he rebuilt al-Kitāb from nothing.
Islamic History
Testing... Explore the concept of Tawheed, the core of Islamic faith, defining the absolute oneness and uniqueness of Allah.
Islamic History
A rare first-hand Muslim account of the Vikings by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (d. 921 CE), detailing their physical appearance, customs, hygiene, and funerary rites.
Islamic History
Malcolm X, Shaykh Aḥmad Ḥassūn, and the Black Saudi Connection Aḥmad Usmān, who meticulously planned the Ḥajj of Malcolm X (1925–1965 CE), emphasised the role played by the Black Saudis... Read More
Biography of the Scholars
A formative moment in the life of Ibn Ḥazm, illustrating how a simple correction in prayer led him to the disciplined study of fiqh and a lifetime of scholarship.
