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There were many versions of the Qur’an all of which were burnt by Usman (R.A.) except for one. Therefore is it not true that the present Qur’an is the one compiled by Usman (R.A.) and not the More

Alija Ali Izetbegovic (1925 - 2003) was a former lawyer who led his Bosnian people to victory after four years of war between the local ethnic groups. A lifelong opponent of communism, he was More

Imam Harun’s fight against racism has deep repercussions not only in South Africa but also in the rest of the continent. He worked relentlessly for the emancipation of Malay Muslims who had been More

Al Kindi was witness to the turbulence caused in the Islamic world by the introduction of Greek philosophy and its ultimate rejection in favor of empirical science. More

Ibn Khaldun was a Muslim, a member of Islamic community, and lived in an age when Islamic thinking was its highest caliber. More

Humans have this ability to really make their own choices. For me it was very subjective, in terms of moral questions, social questions, economic question and political questions, it is so More

Shajarat Ad-Durr concealed his death, and claimed that the physicians had prevented anyone from visiting him, and quickly sent to his son Toran Shah More

The Mamluks were usually attributed, in name, to the master who bought them, for example, As-Saalihiyyah were the Mamluks bought by King As-Saalih Ayyoob, the Kaamiliyyah the Mamluks bought by More

Any master who purchased the Mamluks used to follow thoroughly all the stages of upbringing; and in many cases, Sultan As-Saalih Ayyoob More

The Mongol armies split up and rampaged through central and western Persia Afghanistan and northwest India. Only one valiant prince, Jalaluddin, had the backbone to stand up to the marauding invaders. More

The experience of the Maliki Maghrib was different. For three long centuries, the Maliki School took a back seat to Fatimid, Murabitun and Al Muhaddith ideologies. More

At the core of Islam is the idea of Tawhid, which liberates the individual from his egotistical prison and propels him into a universal mold. More

The most important reason for the fragmentation of the Maghrib-and the loss of Andalus-was the loss of legitimacy of rule. More

Agricultural production was a casualty of the drop in population. When food production dropped, many of the settled tribes became nomads. More

Islam, by contrast, liberates humankind not only from the individual ego, but also from the prison of racism, tribalism and nationalism. More

Ibn Khaldun is justly regarded as the father of sociology and the philosophy of history. He was the first to advance a general theory of the rise and fall More

The Merinides in Morocco reached their greatest strength under the Emirs Ali and Abu Inan (1331 to 1357). More

The defeat at Las Novas de Tolosa (1212) was a result of several interrelated political, religious and economic factors. More

The Crusades in Palestine ended with the victory of Salahuddin at the Battle of Hittin (1186). This was also a period when Al Muhaddith power was at its zenith in the Maghrib. More

Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini towers high as the central figure in the events leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was a religious scholar, a revolutionary, a political leader and an More

Sulaiman, the eldest son of Orkhan. In 1354, Sulaiman captured the Fort of Gallipolis. Ankara was captured the same year. When Sulaiman died in an accident in 1356, the march passed under the More

Tower of Pisa is safe from toppling, but it will never stand fully straight – not that the millions of tourists who visit it every year would want it to. Here are 5 facts about the Tower of More

In this account of the states that were established in Palestine and Syria in the wake of the First Crusade, Malcolm Barber intriguingly bucks a trend in recent crusading studies. More