Abdal-Hakim Murad

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  1. The Rainbow Culture of Islam

    • 7 July 2010 • 0 comment

    “The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over…”

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  2. Globalised before Globalisation: The Forgotten Legacy of the Muslim Trader

    • 17 October 2009 • 0 comment

    “..if even 1/10 of the wealthy in the Muslim World actually paid their zakat – most of the problems in the Muslim World would be overcome and you would see something of the beauty of the Medinan alternative…”

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  3. Nurture the Tree of Islam

    • 2 April 2005 • 0 comment

    That which is Islamic is in a sense obviously that which is radical because it is rooted. Our’s is a time when to be rooted in the past, to be part of an organic entity that goes back centuries has become the strangest and the most unusual thing…

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  4. Bombing Without Moonlight

    • 1 October 2004 • 1 comment

    It is in this frankly primitive condition that we seek to discuss religious acts which, against all the predictions of our grandparents, claim to interrupt the progress of history towards a world in which there will be no continuity at all…

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  5. Faith & Reason: Muslim terrorists embrace a very secular heresy

    • 1 May 2004 • 0 comment

    Religion is meant to make people happy. Onlookers may frown, mystified, but believers rejoice. This time, the rejoicing is about nothing less than the healing of the torn human heart…

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  6. Muslim loyalty and belonging

    • 2 January 2003 • 0 comment

    The world is at present in the grip of fear. We fear an unknown absence that hides behind the mundanity of our experience; perhaps ubiquitous and confident, perhaps broken and at an end…

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  7. Benedict XVI and Islam: the first year

    • 2 May 2000 • 0 comment

    In the immediate aftermath of the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the Papacy, Muslim reactions to the new pontiff were diverse and confused. Turks were dismayed by his very public opposition to their membership of the European Union…

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  8. Muslims and the European Right

    • 3 April 2000 • 0 comment

    The new substitute for Antisemitism is resurgent in formerly Nazi regions as well. In Austria, the currently-triumphant Freedom Party seems no less mistrustful of the Muslim presence…

    Tags Abdal-Hakim Murad Article Beliefs and Practices of Islam Building Good Character Current Affairs and Politics Inspiring 'Feel Good' Khutbahs

  9. The Sunna as Primordiality

    • 2 April 1999 • 0 comment

    Twentieth-century Western art is not a subject for which we Muslims have much time. The alert among us are conscious that it neatly represents the decline of the Western Christian worldview…

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