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...

570 ● Byzantine Empire – Death of John Philoponus (John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria), renowned philologist, Aristotelian...

622 – The Hijrah (Migration) In July 622, about seventy-five Muslims from the tribes of Aws and Khazraj in Yathrib (later Medina) met...

Early Meccan Period M uhammad ibn Abd Allah ﷺ was born in the city of Mecca, in the region of the Hijaz (present-day western Saudi...

Medina was still a city with a non-Muslim majority as the total number of Muslims in Medina some 1445 years ago was not more than 75....

By Dr. Abdullah Al Ahsan In response to my previous article on the role of mosques and Islamic centers in the United States, I received...

The copy of the letter Prophet Muhammad sent to the monks of Saint Catherine

Medina was still a city with the non-Muslim majority. The total number of Muslims in Medina 1438 years ago was not more than 75. Yet, at...