These rare – perhaps the oldest existing – pictures have been attributed to Makkan photographer Abdul Ghaffar and Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje who had come to Makkah and embraced Islam. (Archived by Leiden University Library) View of Ka’bah
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HYDERABAD, India: Muslim groups and many Old City residents called on people to help rebuild mosques and spread brotherhood in the city. “We want to give a message to our youths to rehabilitate mosques by establishing prayers. It’s time we took care of our historic structures,” said Asif Alam, a trader in Begum Bazaar, according
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‘What’s the point in planting olive trees?’ STORIES MY FATHER TOLD ME Visiting Jiddu (grandpa) and Teta (grandma) in their mountain village was always a treat. Teta would have special sweets and my favorite food prepared for me. Best of all though was Jiddu taking me with him to the fields. Sometimes it was a
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All news articles, and this one in particular written by a former Israeli foreign minister, are being shared for information purposes only. We do not necessarily support their views. TEL AVIV: When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, he could not possibly have imagined
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BAKU, Azerbaijan: Mosques in the Nagorno-Karabakh region’s symbolic city of Shusha called local Muslims to the weekly Friday Prayer for the first time in nearly three decades in November, 2020. The adhan was first called out of the historical Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque, with Azerbaijani soldiers converging on the building to perform their prayers. Shusha,
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‘I would give up my kingdom to be like Sālim’ By Ibn Kathir (d. 774H/1373CE)Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee The Umayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdul Malik performed Hajj. While he was performing Tawaf around the house he saw Sālim ibn Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab. Sālim was carrying his broken shoes in his hand
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BOSNIAN banks, food producers and hoteliers are adopting halal standards to tap a fast-growing market thanks to the country’s large Muslim population, an influx of Gulf tourists and growing trade with the Arab world.
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‘Muslim world needs to find place in new world order’ World order is undergoing ‘profound realignment,’ says advisor to Turkish president ANKARA, Turkey: The world order is undergoing a “profound realignment” and the Muslim world needs to find its place in it, said a senior advisor to the Turkish president recently. Gulnur Aybet was recently
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By Kate O’ Sullivan, Communications Officer, Save The Children In this undated file photo, Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in Shati refugee camp in Gaza. RAMALLAH I regularly get the chance to sit and talk to Palestinian children and without fail, I learn something new. From a 10-year-old budding poet
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Name and location Mount Arafat lies 22 km east of Makkah in the plain of Arafat.[1] Mount Arafat reaches about 70 m in height and is also known among people as the mount of mercy. The ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah is called Arafat day because Hajj pilgrims spend their whole day in the plain of
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