Eclipse

Eclipses and Astronomy in Islam

Studying the cosmos is ingrained in the Qur’an which propelled the early Muslim scientists to c ...

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq: The First Caliph

Tabuk was the last expedition of the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) and he asked peo ...

Muslim Scholars

Muslim Scholars of Medicine and Mathematics

Ibn Haytham's writings reveal his fine development of the experimental faculty. His tables of c ...

qur'an

How Do We Know the Qur’an is Unchanged?

The revelation of the Qur’an was not an isolated event in time. It was a constant stream of ver ...

Al-Zahir Baybars

The Great Mamluk Sultan Al-Zahir Baybars

Baybars gained his first major military victory as commander of the Ayyoubid army at the city o ...

Imam Malik ibn Anas

Imam Malik's mother advised him to join the first school and university in Islam, the Mosque of ...

The Last Great Caliph: Abdulhamid II

Throughout Islamic history, one of the uniting aspects of the Muslim world was the caliphate. A ...

King As-Salih Najm Ad-Din Ayyoub

One could hardly imagine how those Muslim emirs accepted to give up Bayt Al-Maqdis for the Chri ...

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz: The Rightly Guided Caliph

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz became the Emir (Caliph) by a coincidence of history. When the Omayyad prin ...

Al-`Izz Ibn `Abdus-Salam

Al-`Izz Ibn `Abdus-Salam was a true scholar who knew that the role of a scholar is not restrict ...

Muslim Printing Before Gutenberg

Gutenberg does seem to have been the first to devise a printing press, but printing itself, tha ...

Blood Circulation

Ibn Al-Nafees and Discovery of the Blood Circulation System

Ibn Al-Nafees worked in the hospital as a physician, and later as a teacher of medicine. Owing ...