I thank God I'm back at Al-Maqasid. This past summer has been such a trial, but I'

In April of last year, I wrote a short piece on ‘the convert mindset in the West’. In this piece,

I was twenty-five years old when I first heard of the University of Texas Professor of Philosophy, Robert Solomon. The

In surveying the positive opinions on Islam by great men and cultural figures of the West, we would be sorely

As the geometer his mind applies To square the circle, nor for all his wit Finds the right formula, howe’

I’ve just finished my first year as a student in an Islamic school — Al-Maqasid — in the United States. And

“You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!” — Algis Budrys, Some Will

Martin Lings is a remarkable figure in contemporary Islam. His life spanned nearly the entirety of the 20th century, and

I’ve been exploring what some great figures of Western culture have said about Islam — figures such as Goethe, Tolstoy,

Reporter: What do you think of western civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea. These words attributed