Dr. Abdullah's Blog

I do not know the day I was born. The people who bought and sold me never cared to record it. They counted cotton bales, horses, and profits. They counted us too, but not as human beings. We were numbers on ledgers, hands in the fields, backs beneath the whip, and names written in fading ink on pieces of paper that could be torn apart as easily as our families. But I remember another day. I remember June 19, 1865. Before America called it Juneteenth, before politicians spoke

Among the many luminous personalities who surround the life of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, few shine as brightly as Nusaybah bint Ka'b al-Maziniyyah, known throughout Islamic history as Umm 'Ammarah. She occupies a unique place in the collective memory of Muslims because she did what very few people—men or women—were able to do: she stood between the Prophet and death during one of the most critical moments in Islamic history. Early Life and Acceptance of Islam Nusaybah belonged to t

The Koh-i-Noor has never been merely a stone. It is a witness—cold, faceted, unblinking—carrying within its crystalline body the heat of conquest, the whispers of courts, the dust of collapsing empires, and the unrecorded grief of those whose histories were taken along with it. Its brilliance is not innocent. It has been sharpened, like memory itself, by the hands of power. Before flags, before passports, before the vocabulary of “India,” “Pakistan,” or “Bangladesh” had harde

Before the advent of Islam, the Arabs followed a lunisolar calendar, in which lunar months were occasionally adjusted with an intercalary...