In what has been termed a 'startling' discovery, the UK’s Birmingham University has unveiled parts of what may be the world’s oldest known version of the Quran, Islam’s holy text. Though the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr just came to an end, many Muslims may find that they have yet another reason to rejoice. In what has been considered a “startling” …

  Alaa Murabit was 15 years old when her father, mother and 10 siblings moved from Canada to Libya.  It was a cultural shock for the young woman. In Canada, her parents had treated her and her brothers as equals. In Libya, these dynamics were challenged by a wider society that attempted to place prohibitions on what women could do. …

 By Nick Mutch Norman Finkelstein is an outspoken and controversial scholar of the Israel/Palestine conflict and one of Israel’s most consistent and trenchant critics. Along with prominent Israeli historian Benny Morris, he has recently announced a partnership with Byline, a crowdfunding platform for independent journalism. He intends to use his journalism to raise $100,000, which he will donate to the …

[We bestow of the Qur'an from on high what serves as a healing and a blessing to true believers, while it only adds to the ruin of the evildoers. Yet when We bestow Our blessings on man, he turns his back and draws arrogantly aside, and when he is afflicted by evil he gives himself up to despair. Say, "Everyone …

We are in the last week before Ramadan; it is worth reminding us all to allow our hearts to receive this holiest of months before our eyes sight the moon. As we turn to Allah in anticipation of fasting, we beg Him to allow us to witness it and to greet the month by shedding our sinful habits and demonstrating …