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Facebook CEO Recommends Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah

In January 2015, Facebook’s cofounder Mark Zuckerberg launched A Year of Books, a Facebook page dedicated to reading and discussing books that emphasize learning about new cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. The recommendations up till now had been for mostly modern books. But the latest, the 11th, was the Muqaddimah, written in 1377 by the Arab Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun. …

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Expecting & Nursing Mothers in Ramadan : No Worries

When Emma gave birth to her first child, Ramadan was only a few days away. For the first time, she found out what it was like not to fast during the holy month – for the whole month. She would spend hours in her room adjusting to life with a newborn. Her cycles included nursing, napping, tending to crying baby, …

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Queen Elizabeth Honors Muslim Athlete

LONDON – A British Muslim woman has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II for her outstanding services to the British Society in 2015, as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honors list. “Honestly I was shocked when I found out, I wasn't expecting it at all,” Rimla Akhtar, chair of Muslim Women's Sport Foundation, told Get West London. “I feel like …

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9 steps to prepare for Ramadan

  The righteous predecessors were very attentive to the worship to Almighty Allah, including paying great attention to the holy month of Ramadan. So it is known that many of them used to pray to Allah during 6 months after the end of Ramadan to accept their fasting, and then in 6 months they would ask Allah to allow to …

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First-ever US Nakba Museum opens in Washington DC

When Bshara Nassar arrived in Washington, DC, he strolled along the National Mall and passed myriad museums dedicated to exposing the painful history of oppressed peoples: the National Museum of the American Indian, the Holocaust Museum, Laogai Museum, the list goes on. He quickly recognized there was no “place for the Palestinian story to be told,” which inspired him to …

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