SHAFAQNA – Last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wife Emine Erdogan’s commented that harems provided women with education, rejecting the idea that women were in fact slave to the Sultan, prisoners in a gilded cage.Shafaqna asked Turkish historian Ayşe Hür what he made of the remark, at ...

SHAFAQNA – The global temperature in February smashed monthly records to become the warmest month in more than a century of recordkeeping. According to Nasa data, global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35°C warmer than the average temperature for that month, measured fr...

SHAFAQNA – IHRC is appalled by the filing of a civil lawsuit in Nigeria demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of the leader of the country’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky along with his wife Zeenat. The lawsuit has been filed with the federal court in the capital Abuja by Danbab...

SHAFAQNA – Russian Ph.D. student of anthropology said, “Respecting Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.) is a religious duty for the Su i Muslims and it is, as ordered by Qura’an and Ahl al-Bayt’s (A.S.) traditions (Hadiths), an Islamic obligation. There is no difference between Su i and Shiite Muslims”. This is his f...

SHAFAQNA- The Dar-ol-Quran Center of the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Hussein (AS) holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq, held a series of Quranic courses in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. According to the website of the Astan, the courses featured accurately reading the Quran and memorization of the ve...

SHAFAQNA- I have been asked one question over and over again during my research with Muslim communities living in the West: why is it that Muslims are negatively portrayed by some parts of the media? Given that such a tiny proportion of Muslims choose to take the path of violence, one wonders why is...

SHAFAQNA- Members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Kwara state staged a peaceful protest at the weekend against the continued detention of the leader of Shi’ites in Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim Al ZakZaky, by the military. Those who staged the protest at the Gate Six of the Ilorin central mosque shortly ...

SHAFAQNA- An Auckland Muslim community is stepping up its charity work in an effort to overcome negative public perceptions of Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community hopes to raise thousands for the Blind Foundation in Walk for Humanity today. Spokesman Sabhan Shah said often the world sees Muslims a...

SHAFAQNA – Research into thousands of WWI letters and secret army documents shows British state feared Muslims would defect to Germans, Over twice as many Muslims fought – or supported – Britain, France and the Russian Empire during World War I than was previously thought, according to new research....

People inspect the prayer room at the Turk Huzur Evi retirment home in Berlin's Kreuzberg district 13 December 2006. The home, which opens officially on the 18th of December, is the first in Germany to cater exclusively to guests of Turkish origin. AFP PHOTO JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP / JOHN MACDOUGALL S...

SHAFAQNA – The moment was surreal for Australian Muslims. The prime minister, Malcolm Tu bull, was addressing the Islamic Council of Victoria and said: “I believe in acknowledging the enormous contributions that Muslims have made to Australian society”. It was only a year ago when the former Prime M...

SHAFAQNA – There are four women in the course of all History which Islam has risen above all: they are Miryam – mother of Issa, Assiyah – wife of Pharoah, Khadijah – the mother of all believers, and Fatimah bint Muhammad – daughter of the last prophet of God. If much ink has been spent in her name, ...

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To clarify the meaning of verses 61 to 62 of Surah al-Waqe’ah, we have to study verse 60 of the same chapter as well; because these three verses are closely co ected, in fact, they express the reason and wisdom behind ordaining death and resurrection of humans in the Hereafter. Therefore we must rev...

SHAFAQNA – The following was made available to Shafaqna courtesy of the Iranian Center for Inte ational Criminal Law. In keeping with its mission statement, the Iranian Center for Inte ational Criminal Law released a statement denouncing human rights violations in Yemen. At such a time when most int...

SHAFAQNA – The following is a statement by the Muslim Congress in response to Donald Trump’s mounting Islamophobic remarks against Muslims and Islam. “The republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, continues to disparage Islam with his rhetoric. On a recent national TV interview he responded with...

SHAFAQNA- An Islamic association is offering breakfast to the homeless in Waltham Forest city in England, in a bid to change perceptions about Muslims in the community. The Waltham Forest Islamic Association (WFIA) held its first session from 9am to 11am on Saturday at its hall in Grove Road, Waltha...

SHAFAQNA- A US Muslim advocacy group is asking Donald Trump to apologize for telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper Wednesday night that he “thinks Islam hates [America].” The remarks from Trump, the current front-ru er for the Republican nomination for president, did not sit well with many of the nearly 3.3...

SHAFAQNA- It is not uncommon for Muslims to gather after early mo ing Saturday prayer at a mosque to share a potluck breakfast. Food can be as simple as croissants and cream cheese. But someone always brings something. And “we all sit around in a circle and chit chat,” said Talha Siddiqui, 25, who w...

SHAFAQNA – Turkey again! One look at headlines, and news tickers clearly confirm how news worthy Turkey has become over the past few months … only not exactly for the right reasons – or so experts say. “From its unflinching support to terrorist groups, to the brutal suppression of Kurdish opposition...