Allama Shibli and Aligarh Movement

DARUL MUSANNEFIN SHIBLI ACADEMY

MUHAMMAD Shibli Nomani (1857-1914) more popularly known as Shibli Nomani or even simply as Shibli was born in a respected family of landed aristocracy in Bindawal, a village of Azamgarh district in eastern U.P. in 1857. Thus Shibli was born while the first war of independence was at its peak. Azamgarh and [...]

Imam Bukhari: Giant of Hadith Scholarship Who Stands in Way of Attempts to Misinterpret the Qur’an

An Introduction For New Muslims and Western-educated Muslims
By KAUKAB SIDDIQUE
SHAWWAL 13 was the anniversary of Imam Bukhari's birth in 194 Hijri. His name is Muhammad and he was known as Abu Abdullah. "Bukhari" refers to his place of birth, the city of Bukhara, located in Tajikistan, 38 miles west of Samarkand. I'll begin with two authentic [...]

Omar Mukhtar

By HUJA USMAN

INTRODUCTION: Omar Almukhtar’s life was encapsulated in a film titled the Lion of Desert. The film paints him as a freedom fighter that resisted the Italian occupation of his homeland, Libya. However, there is a lot more to our hero Omar Almukhtar than that. To Libyans and Muslims at large, the name [...]

Use of the Lunar Calendar

The Islamic Calendar is based on the Lunar Calendar consisting of 354-355 days annually and is 10-11 days shorter than the western Solar Calendar. The Lunar month is based on the time it takes the moon to complete a single orbit around the earth and it is just over 29 days.