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The one thing that I can say with full belief is that I have definitely learned to be patient, and how to work on one project slowly and surely until my ideal vision of the art piece emerges from the paper as the butterfly emerging form the cocoon. The process of cutting a paper and […]
Salam Standard is a unique hotel reference tool for a global Muslim travel community worth more than US$142 billion Salam Standard, the world’s first online hotel reference tool dedicated to Muslim travellers, launches today at the inaugural World Halal Travel Summit & Exhibition (WHTS15), in Abu Dhabi. The unique standard, which provides information on “Muslim-friendly” […]
According to new research at the University of Birmingham, a collection of Quranic manuscripts held at the university may be the oldest in the world. Radiocarbon dating estimates that the manuscripts, which are written on animal skin, were written between 568 and 645 CE. If the research is accurate, it means that the manuscripts were […]
The Aya Sophia (also knows as The Hagia Sophia) is more than 1,400 years old. It was first built and used as a cathedral by the Eastern Roman Empire for over 900 years. Following Fatih Sultan’s conquest of Istanbul in 1453 C.E, the church was found in a state of disrepair and was renovated and converted […]
2015 marks Churchill’s 50th anniversary. Winston Churchill began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels […]
‘It really makes me think about becoming a Muslim’: Liam Neeson considers converting to Islam following trip to Istanbul. Could be leaving his Roman Catholic beliefs behind? According to The Sun, Neeson admitted that Islamic prayer ‘got into his spirit’ while he was filming in Turkey. ‘The call to prayer happens five times a day, […]
