Andalusia, Briefly
A short tour of Córdoba at its tenth-century peak — the Great Mosque and its forest of columns, the vast library, and what survived the centuries that followed.
The Reading Room
The Prayer of the Anxious
A reflection on the duʿā taught for anxiety and distress — what this prayer for worry and grief asks God for, and the one thing it pointedly never asks Him to remove.
On Slow Reading
A defense of reading slowly in an age that rewards skimming — what the science of deep reading, and the Quran's command to recite with tartil, both ask of us.
On the Patience of Yaqub
A close reading of Surah Yusuf, and what the prophet Yaqub teaches about a patience that grieves — loss that lasts, carried without despair.
From the editors
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Malcolm X: The Long Road to Makkah
From a burned house in Michigan to a prison library, a Harlem pulpit, the Hajj and a ballroom in New York: the life of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, and how far one man can travel in thirty-nine years.
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Ahmed Deedat: The Shop Boy Who Learned to Answer
How a teenage shop assistant outside Durban, mocked for knowing nothing about his own faith, became the most famous Muslim debater of the twentieth century, and then spent his last nine years unable to speak.
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Andalusia, Briefly
A short tour of Córdoba at its tenth-century peak — the Great Mosque and its forest of columns, the vast library, and what survived the centuries that followed.
Read →
The Prayer of the Anxious
A reflection on the duʿā taught for anxiety and distress — what this prayer for worry and grief asks God for, and the one thing it pointedly never asks Him to remove.
Read →
On Slow Reading
A defense of reading slowly in an age that rewards skimming — what the science of deep reading, and the Quran's command to recite with tartil, both ask of us.
Read →
On the Patience of Yaqub
A close reading of Surah Yusuf, and what the prophet Yaqub teaches about a patience that grieves — loss that lasts, carried without despair.
Read →
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Malcolm X: The Long Road to Makkah
From a burned house in Michigan to a prison library, a Harlem pulpit, the Hajj and a ballroom in New York: the life of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, and how far one man can travel in thirty-nine years.
Read →
Ahmed Deedat: The Shop Boy Who Learned to Answer
How a teenage shop assistant outside Durban, mocked for knowing nothing about his own faith, became the most famous Muslim debater of the twentieth century, and then spent his last nine years unable to speak.
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