A Debate between Amina Assilmi and Deborah Scroggins1

Radical Reform1

Tariq Ramadan’s latest book, Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation consists of 16 chapters divided into three major sections: “On Reform,” “Classical Approaches of the Fundamentals of Law and Jurisprudence,” “For a New Geography of the Sources of Law and Jurisprudence” and “Case Studies.”

Blackwater1

The New Nuclear Danger1

American Fascists1

Target Iran1

Abstract

The Impact of Global English on the Arabic Language: The Loss of the Allah Lexicon1

Timeline

248 B.C.E.–224 C.E. Parthian Empire

224 C.E.–651 C.E. Sassanid Empire

570 Birth of the Prophet Muhammad

610 The Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation

622 The Hijrah (migration) from Mecca to Medina

624 Battle of Badr

625 Battle of Uhud

627 Battle of the Trench

628 Treaty of Hudaybiyyah; Battle of Khaybar

630 Conquest of Mecca

632 Death of the Prophet Muhammad

632–61 The rule of the four rightly guided caliphs

The Islamic religion places a great deal of stress on cleanliness. The importance of hygiene in the Muslim faith is summarized in a famous tradition in which the Prophet Muhammad said: “Purification is half of faith” (Muslim, Ahmad, Tirmidhi).