Converts to Islam
Apostate from Christianity to Islam in times of secularisation and terror
Dutch politician Mr Joram van Klaveren talks to me about his extraordinary journey from far-right Christianity to Islam.
From L.A. to Dahab (life story of a man named Yousef)
This is a fascinating life story a 60-year-old man with an interesting character named Yousef, who originally comes from L.A., and now lives in Dahab, Egypt. He has been traveling and living abroad since he was 7.
Beauty and the Beast: an everyday story of life in France
The photo at the top shows Sylvain Helaine, an elementary school teacher in Palaiseau, France who teaches children up to six years old. The photo underneath is of the head of the Sorbonne University Students’ Union in Paris, Maryam Pougetoux…. Read More ›
‘Muslims need to think theologically about what it is to be precarious minorities in a continent where more and more people are voting for these anti-Muslim populous parties and we need to react to an aggression with something better’ Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Muslims need to think theologically about what it is to be precarious minorities in a continent where more and more people are voting for these anti-Muslim populous parties and we need to react to an aggression with something better (Qu'rān… Read More ›
The metaphysical vacuum at the heart of Europe’s new populist parties
Overwhelmingly – as with Nazism – Europe’s new mood of national populism is a secular evolution, reflecting rather than challenging a very chronic spiritual recession across the continent, and recalling the atheistic mood of most twentieth-century totalitarianism. Pegida UK, launched… Read More ›
RIP
I have just heard that Rev Dr Anthony Meredith SJ has died. As well as being a Catholic priest he was a distinguished patristics scholar at Oxford and London universities and he received me into the Roman Catholic Church when… Read More ›
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad in the 2020 Edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims, is ranked the 48th most influential Muslim in the world.
Timothy Winter (born 1960), also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, is an English Sunni Muslim scholar, researcher, writer and academic. He is the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies at both… Read More ›
A theology of the Ahl al-Kidhab
So we are exiles from humanity’s current inhumanity, and from the desolating winds of atheistic post-normativity; we are not exiles from our good-hearted neighbours or their best traditions and motives; as the hadith says, ‘Wisdom is the lost riding-beast of… Read More ›
Book Recommendations from Dr. Jonathan Brown
Interested in books about Islam, Islamic history, and Islam & politics? Dr. Jonathan Brown offers some book recommendations for you to consider while at home. Reading List: The Message of the Qur’an by Muhammad Asad The Road to Mecca by… Read More ›
What are we to make of ‘alternative sexualities’? A Muslim response.
As Muslims come under intense pressure in the West to approve of homosexuality, University of Cambridge academic and Muslim convert Dr Tim Winter asks what the Muslim response should be. Militant pressure groups insist that homosexuality is normal and natural… Read More ›