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  • RANDOM US: NO REGRETS OVER ISLAM BOOK

    Random House US has said that it has no regrets about pulling out of publication of Sherry Jones' Islam-inspired romantic novel, The Jewel of Medina, despite the growi... Read More


     

  • LUCKNOW: WOMEN TO SOLEMNISE NIKAAH

    LUCKNOW: A group of young Muslim women has decided to break fresh ground by moving for social reform and gender equality from within the religious community rather tha... Read More


     

  • FIGURES ON FAITH - MUSLIMS AIM TO GATHER BETTER COUNT OF POPULATION

    In Indianapolis and across the country, though, efforts to gauge the size of the Muslim population seem to miss that sense of growth. Muslims are particularly concerne... Read More


     

  • LUCKNOW: SUNNIS PRAY AT SHIA MOSQUE

    LUCKNOW: Setting a new tradition in Lucknow which has a long history of Shia-Sunni riots, a handful of Muslims belonging to the Sunni sect offered namaz at a Shia mosq... Read More


     

  • RARE SHOW OF ISLAMIC UNITY IN SAUDI ARABIA

    Qatif: In a rare gesture of unity and amity with their brothers in Islam, a delegation of Sunnis performed Juma prayers at one of the Shiite Mosques in the eastern cit... Read More


     

  • A FEW GOOD MEN: AMERICAN MUSLIM WOMEN BEMOAN LACK OF 'GOOD' MALE SUITORS

    Afaf*, 25, has been searching for a husband for a solid two years to no avail. "All my friends were getting married by the age of 22, so, naturally, I wanted to be pa... Read More


     

  • SHARI'A-COMPLIANT FINANCE BECOMING VIABLE PART OF GLOBAL BANKING

    The rise in the price of oil in recent years has meant a windfall of revenue for the oil-rich Middle East. This infusion of petrodollars has led some of the world's we... Read More


     

  • DEOBAND FIRST: A FATWA AGAINST TERROR

    For the first time ever, Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa against terrorism on Saturday, stating Islam had come to wipe out all kinds of terrorism a... Read More


     

  • THE NEW FACE OF ISLAM

    A critique of radicalism is building within the heart of the Muslim world. Worshipers in Pakistan, where support for Muslim radicals has plummeted. Read More


     

  • ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINIONS, YES. BUT THEIR FACTS?

    On May 12, The Times published an Op-Ed article by Edward N. Luttwak, a military historian, who argued that any hopes that a President Barack Obama might improve relat... Read More