Rabiul-Awwal 1442
№11 (14) (2020-11-01)

Magnificent mosques: The Kalon mosque of Bukhara

When the Kalon Mosque of Bukhara was built in 1127, its minaret was probably the tallest building in Central Asia. Bukhara (also spelled Bux oro) is...

Biography of Muhammad-Tahir of Qarakh (1809-1882)

Muhammad Tahir, the son of Khuchalav al Tsulda alQarakhi, was born in the Qarakh village of Tsulda (now Charodinsky district) in 1809. Historians...

Muslim inventions that changed the world

About 1,600,000,000 cups of coffee are consumed every day around the world. Billions of people rely on it as part of their daily routines. And yet,...

Satisfaction with the predestination of Allah and absolute submission to Him – the highest level of worship of the Lord

Contentment with all the predestinations of Allah and complete obedience to Him (taslim) is the highest degree of manifestation of slavery to the...

Flowers of piety: muslim women And the business of pottery

Mankind has a unique relationship with clay: a number of times the Holy Koran reveals clay as a core element of our creation by the Almighty Allah ...

Seven scientific facts testify That Prophet Muhammad is sincere

In this research we will demonstrate how certain scientific facts mentioned in the sayings (hadith) of the Prophet have been proved to be true by...

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Aggression in Children: Causes and Proactive Approaches

All children are born with aggressive impulses; this is a natural part of being human, serving to help them protect themselves and explore the world. As they grow, most people learn to manage these impulses.   Research from the University of Montreal, which tracked 35,000 children from the...


The Koran in Russian Poetry

A number of Russian poets have devoted special attention to the Holy Book of Muslims in their work. The beautiful, unique, and unsurpassed style of the Koran served as an inspiration for classics of Russian literature.   The world-renowned Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote a series of...


Facing Rudeness: How to Survive in a World of Toxic Interaction

In the office, where dozens of people cross paths daily, in queues, on public transport, and especially across the vast expanse of the internet, we encounter them everywhere.     These are the people whose presence turns every interaction into a test of one’s endurance. In...


Dirham of Caliph al-Mahdi

In my collection, I have a silver dirham of the Caliph (leader of the Muslims) al-Mahdi, who inherited power from his father, Caliph al-Mansur.     The future Caliph al-Mahdi was born in 126 AH (744 AD) in the village of Humayma, located in present-day Jordan. As Caliph, his father...


The Great Scholar Ibn Khaldun

About ten years ago, while in Tunisia, I used the local currency, dinars. My attention was caught by a striking portrait of a man wearing a Muslim turban on a 10-dinar banknote. Who was this man? I became curious. The portrait was labeled in both Arabic and French: “Ibn Khaldun,” along with the...