King Charles III has recently garnered a lot of attention since he ascended the throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The new British monarch has been in the public eye for decades and has expressed his thoughts openly on a number of cultural and social issues including climate change, politics, and…...
Pakistan is currently undergoing one of its worst crises following heavy monsoon downpours and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountain regions. The floodwaters ravaged towns, villages, roads, and bridges claiming the lives of more than 1,400 people and affecting an estimated 33 million more. The floods have caused severe structural damage throughout the country, with…...
Culture is no longer bound to a particular location and often moves and transforms. Ornamentation in Islamic art — patterned decoration or embellishment seen on objects or in architecture — is a great example of such movement of culture that can now be found across the world. At a traveling exhibition showcasing Maison Cartier’s resplendent…...
Guidance to Islam is on top of all the countless gifts and blessings Allah bestows upon human beings. It can come anytime; at times during a person’s darkest time as a beacon of light. Such was the case for a disabled Ukrainian man who converted to Islam after taking shelter in a mosque during the…...
New discoveries continue to amaze us about the vastness of our universe. The James Webb Space Telescope has given us its first images and they are breathtaking. These images include the deepest infrared view of our universe ever taken, capturing starlight over 13 billion years old. With a myriad of entire galaxies in “just one…...
Qatar has agreed to finance the restoration of the houses destroyed during the latest conflict in Gaza. Hamas leader Heniyyeh, who praised Qatar’s support in the statement, said that the reconstruction process will be carried out through the Qatar Reconstruction Committee. Forty-nine Palestinians were killed and over 300 more were injured in Israel’s military operation…...
The 2022 Islamic Well-Being Index (IWI) for Muslim Countries was launched internationally with Maldives newly included for IWI 2022 assessment. Maldives was amongst 33 Muslim majority countries for which religiosity (Deen) data is available from World Values Surveys. Former leaders, Indonesia and Malaysia, share second place. The nominations of these three Muslim countries shows the…...
“Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet ﷺ” is Ithra’s first traveling exhibition, exhibiting at Ithra’s iconic building in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for nine months before traveling across the country and then globally during its five-year run. The research-based artistic exhibition takes a deep hard look at the eight-day and 400 km journey the Prophet…...
Darul A’shom school in Yogyakarta opened its gates in 2019 to cater to children with hearing disabilities. It is the first Islamic boarding school in Indonesia that helps students study and recite from the Qur’an using sign language. The students are also provided with formal education along with their religious studies. Abdul Kahfi, the founder…...
The 5th Islamic Solidarity Games began on Tuesday, 9th August in Konya, Turkey. More than 4,000 athletes from at least 55 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will compete in 24 sports, ranging from archery to basketball and judo to swimming for 355 medals. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially declared the games…...