Articles
Islamic History
A discussion on the true meaning of legal imprisonment (al-ḥabs ash-sharʿī) in early Islam, and how the practice changed from the time of the Prophet ﷺ and Abū Bakr to the time of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.
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.
Islamic History
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.
Scholars
Al-Hilālī's coin-probability illustration from his sharḥ on Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, demonstrating the mathematical impossibility of a purposeless, chance-formed universe.
Islamic History
The extraordinary and tragic biography of a Najdī scholar who rose to brilliance, before descending into open apostasy and a lifelong war against Islam.
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
Islamic History
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
A remarkable first-hand account of the scholar ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kinānʾī's defiant stand against Bishr al-Marīsī and the Miḥna - the Abbasid inquisition that sought to impose the doctrine of the created Qurʾān upon the Muslim world.
Islamic History
When Life Turns: Classical Wisdom on the Brevity of Life and the Swiftness of Change
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.
