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How do we make sense of the Muslims of India? Do they form a political community? Does the imagined conflict between Islam and modernity affect the Muslims' political behaviour in this country? Are Muslim religious institutions-mosques and madrasas-directly involved in politics? Do they instruct...

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? What does this mean about what you’ve been venerating? No issue brings this question into starker contrast than slavery. Every major religion and philosophy condoned or approved of it, but in modern times there is nothing seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad.

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"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."Muhammad James Sutton is originally from Jacksonville, FL and became Muslim at the age of 15 in 1993. He began seeking knowledge by traveling around the United States to places like Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Texas, but eventually made his way to Yemen where he lived for 15 years from 2000-2015. After Yemen, he would spend 6 years in Saudi Arabia. During his travels, he was blessed to study subjects like Arabic, Hadith, Tafseer, Aqeedah, Fiqh, Usool Al-Fiqh, etc. with scholars in Dammaj & Sanaa (Yemen)...

Muhammad Amir Ali Bin Idris Ali and his wife Raiha Binte Tahir have been teaching a course on Islamic funeral rites for about seven years. They also run Pengurusan Jenazah NUR, or NUR Muslim Casket. What does it take to be a jurumandi, whose job is to wash and shroud the bodies of deceased...

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This podcast is designed to explain what the Islamic faith is and what it is not.

When the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or Daesh) captured Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul in 2014, it heralded a period of unimaginable terror and destruction. A young man named Omar, writing under the pen name of ‘Mosul Eye’, secretly reported from the besieged city unveiling to the world apocalyptic scenes as militants desperately searched for him. For the first time, Mosul and the Islamic State tells the untold stories from inside the Islamic State’s reign of terror over this ancient city, the pursuit of justice in its aftermath, and the enduring struggle of its people for a...

Dear Lifesaver, This is an audio letter to you, every single one of our supporters and beyond, who want to be a part of the journey to understanding what it takes to save a life.Join Nabilah and Sara every fortnight to tackle some big questions they have about the the story of humanitarian aid, as it was, has been, and may be, and importantly, how faith factors into all of this.The biggest question is, could you help save and transform more lives by learning something new about humanitarian aid? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.