In a surprise move, the administrators of the official website for renowned Saudi singer Muhammad Abduh, affectionately known as singer of the Arabs, have decided to permanently cancel the site. In ...

KARACHI: Dr Walid Ghali, an assistant professor at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC), gave a lecture on ‘Islam Reformist Tradition in the 19th Century ...

The Plato to al-Afghani’s Socrates, Abduh was his student and collaborator. Much of our information about al-Afghani is known through him. Abduh is viewed as the architect of Islamic modernism. At ...

In the wake of the massacre that took place in the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, I have been called upon as a scholar specializing in Islamic paintings of the Prophet to explain whether images of ...

In 1881, the great Muslim reformer Muhammad Abduh published in the Egyptian gazette “Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyya” an editorial that could have been written today. Reflecting on the democratic system of ...

In the wake of the attack onCharlie Hebdo, a flurry of articles have explored whether images of the Prophet Muhammad are "banned" in Islam. While some Muslim voices are adamant that this is strictly ...

Defender of the faith and key advocate for the Caliphate. By Ian K Smith A Syrian student and collaborator of Abduh, Muhammad Rashid Rida was a key supporter of the Caliphate, the Islamic state led by ...