• Second Theme: Factors Causing Crisis
    • Ayatollah Khamenei: “Today everyone in the world is an eyewitness to the fact that the United States along with its allies still supports the most vicious terrorists – Daesh and the like – and despite claiming to fight them, it never ...
    • Study: Wearing Hijab Helps Body Confidence
    • British Muslim women who wear the hijab feel generally better about their body image than those who don’t wear the hijab. The research, conducted by Dr Viren Swami from the University of Westminster and colleagues looked at ...
    • How I Found My Happiness
    • In 1968 I was born and raised in Hannover, a big city in Germany as a Christian, a Protestant, just because my parents were Christians. All my life I believed in God but I have never been too religious.All my life I believed in God but I have never ...
    • What drives people to convert to Islam?
    • Muslims believe however, that the Islamic religion is different in this context. One may argue that similar to other faiths there are aspects of it which are not completely demonstrable by reason but on the other hand, ...
    • Why Did You Convert to Islam?
    • The most common question that I am asked by both Muslims and non-Muslims is, Why did you convert to Islam? This is a simple question, but the answer is both easy and extremely complicated for me to answer. I could write ...
    • Even Angels Ask (part 2)
    • And when we pray and put our nose to the ground, we feel a joy, a rest, a strength, that is outside this ...
    • Even Angels Ask (part 1)
    • Dr. Jeffrey Lang is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the ...
    • Bruce Paterson Journey in Search of Truth
    • I would like to take the opportunity to share with you my journey to Islam and I feel that by sharing this experience with you I can help you on your journey through life. We are all ...
    • Muharram in Africa: North of Africa
    • The entrance of Islam to Africa started when Prophet Muhammad’s followers immigrated to Habesha (today’s Ethiopia). From the first century A.H. Islam became ...
    • Who is Muhammad Legenhausen?
    • Ive been asked too many times to explain how I became a Muslim. Nearly every time, I come up with something different. I dont make anything up, but the acceptance of a religion is complicated. It involves ...
    • Sean Stone Converted to Islam
    • Sean Stone, the 27 year old son of Oliver Stone, Hollywood’s prominent Director, said at a press conference in Tehran that he has accepted Islam and believes that Christians, Jews and Moslems all worship one god. He has added another name to his ...
    • A Greek Girl Reverts to Islam
    • My name is Janna. I’m Greek. I was born in Germany and I grew up in a very strict traditional Greek Orthodox family. We grew up almost as other Muslim families with other children. Our families wanted to ... guarantee that
    • Father Viacheslav from Church to Islam
    • Viacheslav Polosin, a former priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and chairperson of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet on Freedom of Conscience, recently announced his conversion from Orthodoxy to Islam. This unprecedented event of the ...
    • How Rene Guenon Discovered Islam
    • Rene Guenon; Sheikh Abdul Wahid Yahya was a well-known French Scholar, writer, philosopher and mystic. He was born on the 15th November, 1886 to a well off Catholic family of France. His father was an engineer of repute. So, Rene Guenon was born with ...
    • A Christian, Fond of Imam Ali (A.S): Part 2
    • Q.: Professor! Please tell us about the first books, Ali, the Voice of Human Justice. G. J.: You may think that it is published by the help of Muslims! But it is wrong! While I was writing, the editor -in- chief of ...
    • A Christian, Fond of Imam Ali (A.S): Part 1
    • The house of George Jordac is located in Al-Hamra district. The Christian neighborhood in North West of Beirut. Beirut is a Showcase of different nations and religions. It’s interesting that ...
    • Eduardo Agnelli, The Martyr of his Belief
    • Eduardo Agnelli was born on June 1954 in New York City, his father was Christian and his mother was Jewish. His mother (Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto) was a Jewish princess and his father was ...
    • Islam could Attract Lauren Booth too
    • Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has embraced Islam after visiting the holy shrine of Hazrat Fatima Masoumeh (PBUH) in Iran’s holy city of Qom. The 43-year-old half-sister of Cherie Blair now wears hijab ...
    • How I Came to Islam (Part 3)
    • When he came to London he brought back a translation of the Qur’an, which he gave to me. He did not become a Muslim, but he felt something in this religion, and thought I might ...
    • How I Came to Islam (Part 2)
    • After a year of financial success and ‘high’ living, I became very ill, contracted T.B and had to be hospitalized. It was then that I ...
    • How I Came to Islam (Part 1)
    • All I have to say is all what you already know, to confirm what you already know about the message of the prophet (PBUH) as given by God – the religion of Truth. As human beings we are given a consciousness and ...
    • Has Your Home Become a Hotel?
    • Has your home become like a hotel? Has the concept of family become a fond memory? The home of today has become very much like ...
    • Antoine Bara: Interview on his book about Imam Hossein(A.S)
    • As we headed for the meeting, we did not expect it to be an appointment with someone who considers himself Shi’a even though he is Christian! What we know about him, he is a thinker, scholar, Christian and Syrian who wrote a book on Imam Hussein(A.S)....
    • Women of the west Vs women of Islam
    • "Do the women of the West have more rights than the women of Islam? Who has always had rights? Who believes in "Equality" and who believes in "Uniformity"...
    • Jane Dammen McAuliffe
    • ffe Jane Dammen McAuliffe was appointed Dean of the College at Georgetown University in 1999.  She is also a tenured Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dr. Mc...
    • Karen Armstrong
    • ong (14 November 1944) Karen Armstrong is an author and writer on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. She was born in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England into a family with Irish roots who after her birth mov...
    • The Tragedy of Western Women
    • men    In today's Westernized societies, where women are not protected by Islamic laws, we find that the woman suffers immense misery and untold hardship all in the name of "Freedom, Equality and Liberation&q...
    • Louis Massignon
    • non Louis Massignon was one of the most important scholars of Islam who ever lived. His influence on the study of Islam in the West was far-reaching, but Massignon was far more than an influential academic. His engageme...
    • John Esposito
    • ito Education: B.A.: St. Antony College, M.A.:St. John'sUniversity Ph.D.:TempleUniversityUniversity Professor as well as Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies atGeorgetown University...
    • Islam and the West in a Transmodern World
    • By Ziauddin Sardar Professor of Postcolonial Studies,London Muslim societies everywhere are caught in a pincer movement: they are being squeezed, on the one hand, by forces of modernity and postmodernism, and on the ot...
    • Franz Rosenthal
    • hal (1915- April, 8, 2003 in Branford, Connecticut) Professor Franz Rosenthal was an eminent interpreter of Arabic literature and Islamic religion and a leading scholar of Aramaic. Professor Rosenthal was born inBer...
    • Theodor Noldeke
    • eke (March 2, 1836 - 1930) Theodor Noldeke, German Semitic scholar, was born at Harburg, and studied at Göttingen, Vienna, Leiden and Berlin. In 1859 his history of the Koran won for him the prize of the French Acad...
    • Joseph Schacht
    • cht by Bernard Lewis Joseph Schacht was born in Ratibor, formerly in Upper Silesia, now inPoland, on 15 March 1902 and attended the Gymnasium in that town. It was there that he acquired his first interest in oriental lan...
    • Muslim Youth in the 21st Century
    • tury "Where shall we begin?" "What is to be done?" Traditional Institutions of Socialization The Family and the Mosque in North America Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina University of Virginia...
    • Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
    • son (1868-1945) English Orientalist, lecturer in Persian and professor of Arabic at Cambridge university, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson was a foremost scholar in the field of Islamic literature and mysticism. He was the great...
    • William Chittick
    • ck William C. Chittick was born inConnecticut, finished his BA at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature atTehranUniversity in 1974. He taught comparative religion in the humanities ...
    • Toshihiko Izutsu
    • tsu Toshihiko Izutsu was Professor Emeritus at Keio University in Japan and an outstanding authority in the metaphysical and philosophical wisdom schools of Islamic Sufism, Hindu Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism (pa...