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What Converts Wish Raised Muslims Knew: We Want To Be Good Muslims, But …

OUR UMMAH IS seeing a huge surge in newcomers to Islam. It is perhaps a surge in conversion that has not been seen since Islam spread from China to Spain. According to the 2003 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records,…

Passion and Power: The Politics of ‘The Ideal Muslimah’

IT IS HUMAN nature to be hyper aware and critical of those in the public eye, and Muslims are no different. Imams, shuyûkh, and other popular figures in the Muslim public sphere are all subject to scrutiny and fascination. Muslim women who…

The Ethical Monotheism of Islam vs Unethical Monotheism

ISLAM, LIKE CHRISTIANITY and Judaism, is commonly described in Comparative Religion textbooks as an ethical monotheism. That is, it asserts that there is only one God, and that recognition and worship of that one God carries grave ethical implications and imposes profound…

A Muslim’s Meditation on Modern-Day Marketing | Part 3

Islam’s Market Mandate—Trade Without Exploitation ISLAM PERMITS, EVEN encourages, trade for profit, but with two strict injunctions: Full disclosure in sales and safeguarding modesty. The purpose of both these provisos is to check exploitation, the formula for which is this: D+SI=E. That is,…

A Muslim’s Meditation On Modern-Day Marketing | Part 2

MANY ARE THE Muslims of our time that make selling and its manifestations today the moral equal of the principles of sales transactions (muʿamalât) in Islam. They see the discrepancy between commerce in capitalism and Islam as a problem of vocabulary not…

A Muslim’s Meditation on Modern-Day Marketing | Part 1

“THE ACTIVITY, SET of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” That’s the American Marketing Association’s definition of marketing, the most important branch of high-level business studies and research…

Divorce from the Muslim Male Perspective

5 Muslim men share their divorce experiences - of loss, the ongoing struggle, and redemption. Breaks a lot of stereotypes, definitely a must-read. "Unfortunately, we are too used to assuming that all or most Muslim men involved in divorce are villains; while…

Trends in American Muslim Divorce and Marriage

Marriage and Divorce: American Muslim Trends*

"The divine wisdom of allowing couples to dissolve their marriages is obvious and essential to healthy community building. But disturbing statistics show an unprecedented rise in divorce among North American Muslims, and the collective community is not showing any signs of improvement…

Children At Tarawih Prayers?

"In 2007, our Southern California community was privileged to host renowned reciter of the Quran, Shaykh Mishary Rashid Alafasi, at a local masjid. The shaykh stayed throughout Ramadan and led the tarâwîḥ prayers, and thousands of Muslims traveled to the Islamic Center…

From White Privilege to American Muslim Minority

FOR MOST OF my life, as a member of the privileged, “white” majority of Americans, I didn’t have to consider the color of my skin, or how the public perceived me. I always felt “normal” – not realizing my advantage nor that…