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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...