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Brother Umar Lee has made a very insightful and interesting sereies of posts regarding the formation of the Salafi dawah in America and its decline due to in-fighting and 9/11.
I would have two critiques regarding the article:
Firstly, the Salafi dawah hasn’t dramatically declined as he has made it out to be; in fact, it has […]

Dr. Maxtro’s Analysis has probably one of the best posts I’ve read in a long time.
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I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone claimed to be the mahdi. In my previous survey on nominating candidates for the position of Khalifah, a good portion of people apathetically stated that the Khalifah could only be established by the Mahdi. As such, perhaps falsely declaring to be the Mahdi might […]

The fuqaha have stated that the establishment of the Khalifah is a fardh kaffayah. Irrespective of the classical proofs for the communal obligation of the Khalifah, it is as obvious as day light that Muslims need an Islamic government somewhere in the world that can act within the interests of the community, given the flagrant […]

When I was in College, I once read a book entitled “The Crusades Through Arab Eyes” by Amin Malouf. As the title would indicate, the book relies upon Arab and Muslim historians to develop their perspective on the Crusades. One of the sections of the book that really surprised me was the description of a […]

A friend of mine, who was inspired by the ALIM Winter 2007 program, decided to set up a blog for some of the brothers from Delmarva to post about deconstructing the hegemonic discourse of science.
Here’s an excerpt from the first post:

The purpose of this blog will be to deconstruct the hegemonic discourse of science. […]

Bismillah.
“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah , as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to Piety: and fear Allah . For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do.”
(Surat […]

Guess whose most beloved controversial aqeedah course instructor is back and better than ever?
Yep, Al Maghrib has begun teaching Aqeedah 102: Light Upon Light. Here are the notes. Pay particular attention to the claim that the Asharis are categorized in the “Primary Groups of Kalam” in the seciton “The Start of Deviation.”
For those of […]

Perhaps one of the greatest ironies of history is that it was the “Islamic threat” which first gave rise to European identity.
The rise of European identity has been given an extensive study by Mr. Norman Davies, author of “Europe: A History.” He astutely points out in this seminal work that the formation of European identity […]

On Sunnipath, there used to be a fatwa which classified mujtahids at three levels: (1) absolute mujtahid who is capable of scrutinizing the sources of legislation and deducing juristic principles (2) madhab mujtahid who is capable of weighing opinions, evidences, and methodologies between madhaib, and (3) mujtahid within a madhab who is capable of weighing […]