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• Articles in Honour of The Prophet
  • The Muhammadan Reality
    by Shaykh Nuh Keller
  • The Light of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace)
    by Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi
    
  • The Hand of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace)
    by Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi
  • The Prophetic Title "Best of Creation"
    by Dr. G. F. Haddad
  • The Omnipresence of the Prophet
    by Dr. G. F. Haddad
  • Decisive Proof of the Finality of Prophethood
    by Mas'ud Ahmed Khan
  • Mawlid: a time to celebrate
    by Dr. Muhammad Abduh Yamani
  • Mawlid: a verdict
    by Naeem Choudhry
  • Refuting the Claim that Imam Abu Hanifa
    was of the Opinion that the Prophet’s Parents were Kafirs
    by Dr. `Inayatullah Iblagh al-Afghanistani
  • O Sweet and Beautiful Madani - A Poem
    by Aftab Malik
  • Al-Shifa of Qadi Iyad - Part Four
    The judgements concerning those who think
    the Prophet imperfect or curse him
    • Introduction
    • Section 1
      The Judgement of the Shari'a regarding
      someone who curses or disparages the Prophet
    • Section 2
      The proof of the necessity of killing
      anyone who curses the Prophet or finds
      fault with him
    • Section 3
      The reasons why the Prophet pardoned
      some of those who harmed him
    • Section 4
      The judgment regarding someone who
      maligns the Prophet without deliberation
      or really believing what he has said
    • Section 5
      Is the one who says such things an
      unbeliever or an apostate?
    • Section 6
      The judgement regarding words that could
      be construed to be a curse
    • Section 7
      The judgement on someone who describes
      himself  with one of the attributes of the Prophets
    • Section 8
      The judgement regarding someone who quotes
      such words from someone else
    • Section 9
      The states of the Prophet which can
      be mentioned for the sake of instruction
    • Section 10
      The necessary adab when mentioning
      reports about the Prophet

• Articles by Shaykh Nuh Keller
  

  • The Woman: A Parable

  • Interview
    with Voice of the Cape Radio Station, South Africa [22/10/01]

  • Making the World Safe for Terrorism
    comments on the tragic events of September 11th 2001.
  • The Adab of Islam
  • The Adab of Sunna
    The Fiqh of Sunna
  • Becoming Muslim
    The Story of How Nuh Ha Mim Keller became Muslim
  • Translation of a Conversation
    between Dr. Said Ramadan al-Buti and a Leading Salafi Shaikh
  • The Mas'ud Questions
• Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Kathir
  Was Ibn Kathir's aqida influenced by Ibn Taymiyya?
• Imam al-Ash'ari repudiating the Ash'ari aqida?
• Reforming Classical Texts
  How widespread is tampering  of texts by the Salafis.
• Dawud al-Dhahiri and Ibn Hazm
• Was Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal an anthropomorphist?
• Do Ibn Baz and al-Albani have Ijazas?
• Haqiqat al-Muhammadiyya
• The Q-News Articles
  • Ibn ‘Ata' Illah’s The Book of Wisdoms (al-Hikam al-‘Ata'iyya)
• What is a Madhhab?
  Why is it necessary to follow one? 
• Is it permissible for a Muslim to believe that Allah is in the sky in a literal sense? 
• Which of the Four orthodox Madhhabs has the most developed fiqh
  for Muslims living as minorities? 
• Who or what is a Salafi?
  Is their approach valid? 
• How would you respond to the claim that Sufism is Bid'a? 
• What is the distinction between hadith and Sunna? 
• What is the meaning of "Qawwamuna" as used in Surat al-Nisa' verse 34? 
• Would you advise individuals to study hadith from al-Bukhari and Muslim on their own? 
• What did you set out to do when you began writing the Reliance of the Traveller? 
• Lectures Transcripts
  • The Concept of Bida' in the Islamic Sharia
    Nottingham and Trent University 25th January 1995.
  • Why Muslims Follow Madhhabs
    Islamic Cultural Center (Regents Park Mosque) January 1995, Bradford University 27th January 1995, Birmingham Central Mosque 29th January 1995.
  • Literalism and the Attributes of Allah
    Islamic Cultural Center (Regents Park Mosque) 28th January 1995.
  • The Place of Tasawwuf in the Traditional Islamic Sciences
    The Islamic Foundation (Markfield Center,  Leicester) January 1995 and Croydon Mosque 30th January 1995.
• Letters
  • A Letter to Abd al-Matin:
    On the Universal Validity of Religions in the thought of
    Ibn Arabi and Emir Abd al-Qadir
  • A Letter to Sulayman Ali:
    On Islam and Evolution 
  • A Letter to Christains in the Ukraine
  • A Letter to Isa Robert Martin:
    On keeping the beard

• Articles by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
  
  • Muslim loyalty and belonging
    some reflections on the psychosocial background
  • Muslims and the European Right
  • Transcript of an Interview with Voice of the Cape Radio Station,
    Cape Town, South Africa. [back soon]
  • Contentions
  • Contentions 2
  • Contentions 3
  • Contentions 4
  • Ibn Hajar Asqalani and his commentary Fath al-Bari
  • Boys will be Boys
    Issues of gender identity
    
  • Seeing with both eyes
    Text of the lecture given at the Cardiff Conference Jan '00
    
  • Recapturing Islam From the Terrorists (Addendum added)
    
  • When the Generous appears with the Name Avenger
    Reflections on the Turkish earthquake
  • Islamic Spirituality
    the forgotten revolution 
  • Understanding the Four Madhhabs
    The Problem of Anti-Madhhabism
  • The Trinity: A Muslim Perspective 
  • Interview of Abdal Hakim Murad 
  • The Fall of the Family - Part I and Part II
  • Islam and the Millennium 
  • Book Review
    of Farid Esack's Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism 
  • Diana and Dionysus
    Analysis of the death of Diana Princess of Wales.
  • British and Muslim?
    Problems faced by converts in th UK
  • The Sunna as Primordiality
  • Islam, Irigaray, and the retrieval of gender

• Articles about September 11
  
  • A Time for Introspection
    Hamza Yusuf Hanson
    
  • Recapturing Islam from the Terrorists
    Abdal-Hakim Murad
    
  • Making the World Safe for Terrorism
    Nuh Ha Mim Keller
    
  • Why Extremism Will Always Fail
    Abd el-Wahid Miranda [in Spanish]
    
  • Interview
    with Shaykh Nuh by Voice of the Cape radio station
    
  • Interview
    with Dr. Mansur Abdussalam Escudero
    Former President of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Organisations
    
  • The Language of Islamophobia
    Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
    
  • The Events of September 11th:
    Thoughts and Emotions - Atif Imtiaz
    

• Miscellaneous Articles
  • Fiqh - Islamic Jurisprudence
    • Questions Pertaining to Imam Malik's perception of Amal of Madina
      with Dr. Yasin Dutton and Aftab Malik
    • The Fatwa of Shaykh Murabtal Haaj concerning the issue of Taqlid of the Four Mujtahid Imams
      translated by Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
    • Etiquettes of Handling and Reading the Qur'an
      Imam Qurtubi
    • Sifatus Salaah
      Shaikh Muhammad Ilyas Faisal 
    • Evidence for 20 Rak'ahs Taraweeh
      Ahmed ibn Muhammad 
    • Taraweeh 8 or 20 Rak'ahs?
      Ahmed ibn Muhammad 
    • Differences of Opinion are a Mercy
      Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad
  • Aqida - Tenets of Belief
    • Decisive Proofs of the Finality of Prophethood
      by Mas'ud Ahmed Khan
    • Belief in God
      Shaikh Shahidullah Faridi
    • al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyya
      translated by Iqbal Ahmad Azami 
    • The Foundations of Islamic Belief
      Imam al-Ghazali 
    • The Asharis
      Shaikh Sayyid Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki 
    • Who are the Ahl al-Sunnah?
      Ahmed ibn Muhammad 
    • Istiwa is a Divine Act
      Dr. G. Fouad Haddad
  • Tasawwuf - Sufism - Islamic Spirituality
    • The Meaning of Tasawwuf
      Shaikh Shahidullah Faridi
    • In defense of `Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
      Ustadha Umm Sahl 
    • Imam al-Haddad on being good counsel
      translated by Shaikh Mostafa al-Badawi 
    • Tasawwuf and Shariah
      Shafiqur-Rahman
    • Journey to Tasawwuf: a Meeting with Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller
      Qais Arthur 
  • Other
    • Islam and the Race Question
      by Pual Hardy
    • The Language of Islamophobia
      Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
    • 1099 - 1999 - Remembering the Tragedy of al-Quds
      Kerim Fenari
    • Puncturing the Devil's Dream about the Hadiths of Najd & Tamim
      Kerim Fenari
    • The Jihad of Imam Shamyl (Checheniya)
      Kerim Fenari 
    • Ramadan in Madina
      Kerim Fenari
    • The Wahhabi Who Loved Beauty
      Kerim Fenari
    • Does the Bible Know about Islam?
      by Ustadha Ruqaiyya Waris Maqsood
    • A Journey to the Haba'ib of Yemen
      
    • Being a Real Man in Islam: [Revised]
      Drugs, Criminality and the Problem of Masculinity
      by Yahya Birt
    • The Changing Face of Secularism and the Islamic Response:
      by Imam Zaid Shakir
    • Ramadan Message
      From Imam Zaid Shakir
    • A Demonstration of Why the Wahhabis are the Khawarij
      by Ahmed al-Ghumari
    • The Discourse of the Grave
      by Imam al-Ghazali (from Remebrance of Death and the Afterlife)
      translated by T. J. Winter
      
    • Al-Albani Unveiled
      by Ahmed ibn Muhammad
    • Protestant Islam
      by Mohammad Al-Abbasi 
    • Imam Abu Hanifa was of the Tabi'in
      by Dr. `Inayatullah Iblagh al-Afghanistani
    • In the Spirit of Tradition
      by Nazim Baksh
    • Dhahabi's Letter to Ibn Taymiyya
    • Islam and Boxing
      by Mas'ud Ahmed Khan (my argument against boxing

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