Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ‘Umar ibn ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Baladhuri, Caliph ‘Ali, Crusades, History, Holocaust, Jews, Ottomans, Prophecy, Spanish Inquisition, Turkey
Why did Jews prefer Islamic Rule?
al-Kasani, al-Qarafi, al-Zurqani, capitalism, Economics, Hadith, Ibn Abidin, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, Ibn Qudamah, Ibn Taymiyyah, Imam Ghazali, Imām al‑Shāfiʿī, Shari'ah, Sunnah
The Islamic Solution to the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Economics, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, Ibn Hazm, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Imam Dhahabi, Imam Ghazali, Modernism, Palestine, Scholars, Shari'ah, Sunnah
The Economic System of the Islamic Caliphate: Part 2 – Islam Outlaws Income Tax and VAT
Politics, Rulers, Shari'ah, Sunnah, Uncategorized
New Book: The Impossible Caliphate
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Caliph ‘Ali, Caliph ‘Uthman, Caliph Umar, Hadith, Ibn Khaldun, Imam al-Mawardi, Imam al-Nawawi, Imam al-Shahrastani, Imam al-Taftazani, Rulers, Scholars, Shari'ah, Uncategorized
The Normative Caliphate Part IV – Ijmā‘
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Caliph Umar, Hadith, History, Ibn al-Mājishūn, Ibn Kathir, Imam Ghazali, Moonsighting, Politics, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Scholars, Shari'ah, Sunnah
The Normative Caliphate Part III – The Burial of the Prophet ﷺ
Creed, Egypt, Gaza, Hadith, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, Ibn Hibban, Imam al-Nasafi, Imam al-Nawawi, Imam al-Taftazani, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine, Politics, Prophecy, Qur'an, Rulers, Sami Moubayed (Syrian historian), Scholars, Sunnah, Tafsir, Turkey
The Normative Caliphate – Part II
Creed, Hadith, Ibn Kathir, Imam al-Qurtubi, Imam Ghazali, Judges, Politics, Qur'an, Scholars, Shari'ah, Sunnah, Tafsir, Uncategorized
The Normative Caliphate – Part I
History, Jews, Jihad, Uncategorized
“The Very Best of the Jews”
Jews, Qur'an, Quran, Tafsir, Uncategorized
The Jewish Rabbi and the Prophet ﷺ
Caliph ‘Ali, Hadith, History, Imam al-Suyuti, Jews, Judges, Shari'ah, Uncategorized
The Caliph and the Jew
History, Jews, Ottomans, Turkey
Jews in the Ottoman Caliphate
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Al-Quds, ‘Umar ibn ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Crusades, Egypt, Gaza, History, Palestine, Uncategorized
The Crusades and Salah al-Din
Al-Quds, Caliph Umar, History, Ibn al-Jawzi, Imam al-Tabari, Jihad, Palestine, Uncategorized
The Treaty of the Caliph ‘Umar with the People of Al-Quds (Jerusalem)
Gaza, Hadith, History, Jihad, Palestine, Prophecy, Qur'an
A Hadith on the Virtue of Ribat in Gaza
Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Ibn al-Jawzi, munkar, Palestine, Politics, Punishment, Rulers, Scholars, Shari'ah
Ibn al-Jawzi: Most Scholars Face the Greatest Punishment
Abu Shakur al-Salimi, Creed, Qur'an, Shari'ah, Sunnah
Early Ḥanafī Scholar: “Whoever denies the necessity of the Caliphate commits disbelief”
Egypt, Hadith, Jihad, Palestine, Politics, Qur'an, Rulers, Scholars, Secularism, Sunnah, Uncategorized
Recent Scholars on the Caliphate
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Caliph Umar, Jihad, Qur'an, Rulers, Sunnah
Imam al-Baghawi on the Caliphate
Economics, History, Jihad, Qur'an, Quran, Shari'ah
The Economic System of the Islamic Caliphate: Part 1 – The Alternative to Capitalism
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Hadith, Imam al-Qurtubi, Jihad, Politics, Qur'an, Seerah, Shari'ah, Sunnah, Tafsir
Is the Caliphate a Nation-State?
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Caliph Umar, Creed, Ibn Juzayy, Iman, Rulers
Ibn Juzayy on the Caliphate (Imamate)
Creed, Devil, Imam al-Qurtubi, Politics, Qur'an, Rulers, Tafsir
Shunning and Rejecting the Tāghūt
Hadith, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, Ibn Khaldun, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Imam al-Nawawi, Imam al-Taftazani, Imam Ghazali, maruf, munkar, Prophecy, Rulers, Scholars, Shari'ah
Waiting for the Mahdi?
Creed, Hadith, Ibn Taymiyyah, Iman, Jihad, maruf, munkar, Politics, Qur'an, Rulers, Shari'ah, Sunnah
Imam Ibn Taymiyyah on Islamic Political Authority
Ibn Kathir, Politics, Qur'an, Secularism, Shari'ah, Sunnah, Tafsir
Political Analysis – A Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
Hadith, Ibn al-Mājishūn, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Kathir, Imam al-Qurtubi, Jihad, maruf, Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari, munkar, Qur'an, Shari'ah, Tafsir
Does Islam Only Have Five Pillars?
Hadith, Ibn Khaldun, Politics, Qur'an, Rulers, Scholars, Seerah, Shari'ah, Sunnah
Imran Khan, Ibn Khaldun and the Political Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
Qur'an, Rulers, Sami Moubayed (Syrian historian), Scholars, Secularism, Sunnah
Daily Telegraph Article: “All Pious Muslims want an Islamic State headed by a Muslim Caliph”
Hadith, Ibn Kathir, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Imam al-Qurtubi, Jihad, Politics, Qur'an, Shari'ah, Sunnah, Tafsir, Uncategorized
Jihad According to the Classical Scholars
Al-Quds, Caliph Umar, History, Judges, Palestine, Qur'an, Rulers, Shari'ah, Uncategorized
When the Second Caliph ‘Umar was Overruled by the Judge
Palestine, Shaykh Asrar Rashid et al
UK Muslim Scholars: “Israel” is an illegitimate state and Jerusalem will be the capital of the future Islamic Caliphate
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Caliph Umar, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Imam al-Mawardi, Imam al-Tabari, Imam al-Taftazani, Politics, Professor Muhammad Yusuf Faruqi, Qur'an, Scholars, Shah Wali Allah, Shari'ah
Early Fuqahā’ on the Significance and Role of the Khilāfah
Abu Yusuf, Caliph Umar, History, Jews, Shari'ah
‘Umar (ra) and the Blind Beggar
Democracy, Ibn Khaldun, Imam al-Suyuti, Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari, Neoliberalism, Ottomans, Qur'an, Sunnah, Uncategorized