On January 14, 2013, the Philadelphia Muslim community was shaken to its core when police sounded an Amber alert for a missing five year old girl. A non-Muslim woman donned niqab and pretended to be the girl’s mother in order to take her out of school. During her captivity, the child...
Intisar Shah is one of the most recognisable and respected members of the Philadelphia Muslim community. Born and raised in North Philadelphia, she accepted Islam in 1973. Some people have described Intisar Shah as a rock of the community, but she is more than that; she’s a gemstone who...
P. Scott, History of the Moorish Empire, The Lippincoat Company, Philadelphia, 1904, vol. 1, p. 584. The so called “Almohad persecution” was particularly stressed by W. Durant, The Age of Faith, Simon and Shuster, New York, 6th printing, 1950, p. 395....
They have to pray five times a day, go for Hajj pilgrimage at least once in their life, fast during the holy month of Ramadhan, charity and doing good deeds. A Muslim woman is also allowed the right to an education, the right to join the workforce, the right to start her own ...
Recent scholarship focuses on the plasticity of the concept of “scripture” as it is defined by different religious traditions. Based on its contents, the Quran is most commonly compared to the Bible, yet such an approach misses the distinct way that th
Two Palestinian men from Philadelphia toldNBC 10that they were questioned while trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Chicago after a man heard them speaking Arabic and became afraid to fly with them. "If that person doesn't feel safe, let them take the bus," Maher Khali told the...