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Former All Blacks Star Sonny Bill Williams Leads Efforts to Build New Mosque in Auckland

AboutIslam & Newspapers 17 February, 2025 Former NRL and All Blacks star Sonny Bill Williams is spearheading a fundraising campaign for a new mosque in Auckland, just months after a…

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Brains Clear Themselves of Toxins During Sleep

Raisa Ladji 16 February, 2025 [Editor’s Note: Sleep, though a relatively new topic in the modern scientific specialty, is an important issue in the Islamic literature, and has been discussed in…

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Four Oldest Mosques in America

Muslim News Staff 14 February, 2025 The oldest surviving mosque in America is 112 years old, reflecting a deep-rooted Muslim community that blossomed centuries ago in the American continent. Here…

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9 Scientific Methods to Locate Qiblah

Hossam Abdel-Qader 13 February, 2025 How can we locate the Qibla direction in any place of the world? This question raised strong furor among Muslims worldwide, especially in the American City of…

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5 Ways to Spiritually Prepare for Ramadan

Monique Hassan 11 February, 2025 As Ramadan approaches, we are all growing in anticipation. Whether this is your first Ramadan or you’ve had a lifetime of Ramadan’s, each year we enter this blessed month…

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Why Was the Qiblah Changed from Jerusalem to Makkah?

Professor Shahul Hameed 11 February, 2025 Two momentous events in the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) bear special significance as regards the institution of Prayer (Salah) in Islam: TheMi`raj(the…

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Reviving a 500-Year-Old Tradition Spanish Muslims Start 8,000-KM Horseback Journey to Makkah

AboutIslam & Newspapers 11 February, 2025 A group of Spanish Muslims has embarked on an extraordinary 8,000-kilometer journey to Makkah on horseback, reviving a pilgrimage route last used by Andalusian…

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Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen): Master of Optics

David W. Tschanz 07 February, 2025 One of the brightest names in Islamic medieval sciences is that of mathematician and scholar Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan bin al-Hasan bin al-Haytham, known as…

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When the mask comes off – Op-Ed Trump and Gaza: It’s not About Gaza

Abdelrahman Rashdan 06 February, 2025 “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”… “I envision a world — people living there, the world’s people.” Such are the exact words of the US…

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Gaza: The Only “Free” Muslim Territory

Dr. Spahic Omer 06 February, 2025 As the Gaza tragedy unfolds, it is increasingly becoming clear that it is the Muslim world, not Gaza, that is caged; that it is…