Darul Hana
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From Trinity to Unity: A Roman Catholic’s Journey to Islam
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The spiritual journey of Nuh Ha Mim Keller, born in the farm country of the northwestern United States in 1954, is a profound testament to the quest for ultimate meaning in the modern West. Raised in a devout Roman Catholic household where the spiritual world felt more real than the physical,…
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An Ottoman Scholar’s Ten-Point Proposal for Reforming Al-Azhar’s Hadith Curriculum
The intellectual life of Islamic scholarship in the mid-twentieth century saw a significant effort to revitalize traditional learning, notably at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. A crucial document in this effort was a letter penned by Shaykh Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1952), the last deputy of the Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam. Having fled Ataturk’s Republican militias, Kawtharī…