Google Arts and Culture is now showcasing a digital exhibit about the Gaza strip in Palestine. It is an inaugural collection by the Barakat Trust on Google and it showcases nine stories related to the history and heritage of Gaza. The Barakat Trust was founded as a UK charity in 1987 and operates for educational…...
Tariq bin Ziyad is known as the conqueror of Spain and is recognized as one of the greatest Muslim commanders of all time. However, there is relatively little information about his origins or nationality. There are three varying accounts of his origins: He was a Persian from Hamadan; he belonged to the Sadif clan; he…...
Saudi Arabia launched the second phase of Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Project for Historical Mosques Renovation, where mosques with historic significance are renovated to their original architectural state using modern construction methods. The ambitious project targets the renovation and development of a total of 130 historical mosques in several phases in various regions of the…...
Mitsutaro Yamaoka Kotaro is an unusual historic figure, born in 1880 in Fukuyama, a city in the Hiroshima prefecture. He studied Russian at the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages (now the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and joined the army as a volunteer soldier after the Russo-Japanese Conflict broke out, “in the year of his…...
Who are the Thamud? The people Prophet Saleh was sent to. But what about others who came after him and the archaeological sites dating to the first two centuries? What do early Islamic scholars say about the survivors from the Thamud?
MANY Muslims today have a misconception about fasting and the activities of a fasting person. They go into a state of semi-hibernation, spending most of their daylight hours in bed. If they fear Allah, they wake up for prayer, but then return to sleep immediately. This unnatural sleep makes them become lazy, dull-witted and often…...
When Prophet Muhammad ﷺ received the command from God to lead the Muslim community in five daily prayers, their prayers were directed towards the holy city of Jerusalem. For Muslims, the city of Jerusalem is an important site. As the home of numerous prophets of Islam such as Dawud (David), Sulayman (Solomon), and ‘Isa (Jesus),…...
Zaynab was the eldest daughter of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Khadeejah (May Allah be pleased with her). She was born 10 years before the prophethood. Like other children of noble Arabs, she was given to a wet nurse. And when she had had her share of that, the house of her parents embraced her with…...
Model of Abbas ibn Firnas’s flying machine at Ibn Battuta mall, Dubai IN 9th century Muslim Spain, more than a thousand years ago, on a hill in Cordoba, Abbas bin Firnas, boldly set out to do what no man had done before. He was ready to test the first flying machine in recorded history. To…...
Al-Oshairah, which is located in the valley of Yanbu, was one of the main destinations used by pilgrims while heading to Makkah. The team has so far documented more than 12,000 aerial images.