His Eminence Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (Rahmatullah Alaih)
Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui visit to Trinidad in 1950 accompanied by his student and secretary, Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari al-Qadiri, lasted for six months…
Gomez, Michael A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas.
Beginning in Latin America in the 15th century, this text represents a social history of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, through to…
Bacchanal in the Land of Carnival
GIVEN the level of crime in the idyllic Caribbean island-state of Trinidad and Tobago, everything from murder and kidnapping to corruption and robbery, I was…
A unique Muslim identity in Trinidad and Tobago
London – In a globalised world of increased communication and information exchange, men and women from the “third world” live in the complicated intersection of…
The Prophet Muhammad (s) – A web portal to him (s)
Lastprophet.info is a non-profit web portal that seeks to describe and talk about the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to an English-speaking audience of…
Why Does One have to follow a madhhab?
A madhab is a school of interpretation of the laws and rules of the faith that is consistent within its standard rules of interpretation based…
Quranic References to the Status of Our Beloved Prophet (S)
References from the Qur’an where God speaks about the characteristics and status of the Prophet Muhammad (s) HIS EXALTED STATUS 1. He is Nur (Sacred Light) (5:15)…
Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar
Introduction Translated by Hamid Algar (Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley) [The following statement appears before the translation of the actual…
A Nawawi Foundation Paper: One God, Many Names
ONE GOD Many Names A Nawawi Foundation Paper: One God, Many Names by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah ©2004. All rights reserved. From the standpoint of…
Muslims of Suriname
Muslims of Suriname In Suriname, there are a large number of Muslims, and they constitute twenty percent of the total population of 425,000 of the…