How to Be a Life Long Learner
In a previous series, we covered in detail how to succeed in college. One of the key messages of that series is that the main purpose of college is not education but rather to gain qualifications needed for a c...
Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi on How to Attend Lectures
Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi is considered one of the most brilliant minds from the Islamic tradition. A prolific writer, he authored over 400 books on topics ranging in diversity from grammar to fiqh to ethics to phys...
Book Release: The Muslim Man’s Guide to College
Alhamdulillah, we're pleased to announce the publication of our first book: The Muslim Man's Guide to College. You can purchase it here.
All the information contained in the book is also available completely f...
Book Review: An Acquaintance
Overall Rating: 2/5
The Islamic fiction genre is a very, very thin one. There were a handful of books in the genre that were available when I was growing up in the 90’s and early 00’s. Fast forward almost tw...
10 Chrome Extensions for the Muslim Man
Evernote Web Clipper
Every come across a new hadith you really like and then months later can’t find it again? Or read a great article and want to reference it weeks later and can’t remember where you re...
Top Five English Seerah Books
The two most important subjects to learn in Islam are Qur'an and seerah. Seerah is the bedrock of a believer. Everything we do is modeled after the Prophet ﷺ. If we don't know him ﷺ , we don't know how we shoul...
Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 5: Ali and Muawiyah
A New Khalifah
Suddenly, Madinah was in chaos. There was no leader anymore. The people needed a new khalifah and Ali (ra) was clearly the best candidate. He was one of the six people whom Umar (ra) had nomin...
Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 4: Rebellion and the Murder of ‘Uthman
The Council of Six
After Abu Bakr (ra)'s passing, 'Umar (ra) became khalifah without any controversy. His rule lasted 10 years and was a time of great expansion for Islam. There's little that people get co...
The Priest and the Paraclete: How a Franciscan Monk found Islam
Anselm Turmeda was an ordained Franciscan priest who was born in 1355 in the Spanish island of Majorca. He was very well educated. In addition to the normal primary education of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, he...
Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 3: The Apostasy Wars and Compilation of the Qur’an
Abu Bakr (ra) may have had the unanimous support of all the sahabah when he became khalifah, but the newly converted Arab tribes were a different story. Remember, within Madinah, the people who surrounded Abu B...