Tue 23 February 2021: An upcoming Turkish film festival will honor the lives of seven Muslim scientists who were pioneers in the field of medicine. They include: Ibn Sina, the father of modern medicine; Al Biruni, a renowned polymath; Ibn al Jazzar, who was the first to diagnose leprosy; Ibn al Nafis, who was the […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: Letter written by former undercover NYPD policeman alleges his department and the FBI covered up details of the killing. A former New York City police officer has, before his death, implicated the NYPD and FBI in the murder of civil rights leader Malcolm X on February 21, 1965. A letter written […]
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Thu 11 February 2021: Mariam took the science of astrolabes to the next level and over a thousand years later, she becomes a central character in the science-fiction novel Binti. Between the 8th and 15th centuries, Muslim scholars made an immense contribution toward science, inventing sophisticated tools in the fields of medicine, astronomy, physics and […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Wednesday marks the 103rd anniversary of the death of Abdulhamid II, an Ottoman sultan known for his groundbreaking reforms in an ailing empire. According to historical sources, Abdulhamid II was born in Istanbul on Sept. 21, 1842. Growing up in the Ottoman palace, he was fluent in many languages, including French, […]
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Sat 23 January 2021: After studying the works of different scholars from different eras, al Khwarizmi simplified Mathematics, taking it out of the philosophical realm and paving the way for a multitude of scientific advances. Algebra is a versatile branch of mathematics and many scientists say it can define the true structure of the universe. […]
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Sat 29 August 2020: Noor Inayat Khan’s home in London to receive blue plaque celebrating ‘Britain’s first Muslim war heroine in Europe’ LONDON – A female Muslim war hero who spied for Britain during World War II became the first woman of South Asian descent to receive a blue plaque in London, local media reported […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Napoleon once said, “If the world was only one country, Istanbul would be its capital!” Second Caliph of Islam Umar Ibn Khattab didn’t convert churches or synagogues into mosques as the keys of Jerusalem was handed over to him in a peace treaty with conditions agreed upon on both sides. Constantinople […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: Turkey commemorates 566th anniversary of conquest of Istanbul by gallant Sultan Mehmet II On this day 567 years ago Istanbul was conquered by an Ottoman king. Constantinople, as it was then known, was capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was surrounded by many Muslim states. In a prophecy about its conquest […]
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Thu 28 May 2020: “…The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: THE 18TH-CENTURY GERMAN thinker Adam Weishaupt would have been stunned if he had known his ideas would one day fuel global conspiracy theories, and inspire best-selling novels and blockbuster films. Until he was 36, the vast majority of his compatriots would have been equally stunned to discover that this outwardly respectable professor […]
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