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Arakkal Swaroopam (Kingdom) was the only Muslim ruling dynasty in Kerala. It was a full-fledged country that resisted colonial invasions and lingered till independence. It was a royal kingdom with ...

This study on the spread of Islam in Kerala examines the arrival and growth of Islam in Kerala and other reasons that drove it. The spread and growth of Islam in Kerala from the advent of Islam to the ...

One of the mystical and didactic spiritual branches of Islam that seeks to bring people closer to the Truth with a deeper personal relationship with the Divine is the Rifai Sufi Order, which traces ...

The Quran Taught Tolerance For The Religions Of The “People Of The Book,” Which Referred To Christianity And Judaism. When The Arabs Encountered Buddhism, Although Its Followers Were Not Strictly ...

Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (603-680 CE), the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, remains one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in the annals of Islamic history. His transition from the ...

Noor—an Arabic-origin word etymologically meaning light and illumination— is one of the attributes of God in Islam. Allah is the light of heavens and the earth and is the only source of light, says ...

“However, the love expressed by some Sufis is more perplexing. Take, for instance, Amir Khusrau’s devotion to Hazrat Nizamuddin, where he casts himself as the yearning lover and Nizamuddin as the ...

1. The History of Tabari or Tarikh al-Tabari, a historical text, contains illogical and unsupported anecdotes about the Companions of the Prophet, making it unreliable and unsubstantiated. 2. The ...

1. Prodigious scholar who memorized Qur’an by age seven, mastered Islamic sciences. 3. Combined austere asceticism with service, feeding poor and washing feet. 4. Appointed Khalifah at 28; led ...

2. With the abandoning of Ijtihad, which accelerated Islamic thought, unnecessary and irrelevant arguments and debates heated up in the academic arena. 3. The political and social content of Shah ...

Recently Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of Shia Waqf Board in Uttar Pradesh filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking to remove 26 verses from the Quran. In this petition he has said that these ...