On Islamic Affairs in Bosnia – Adviser of Mufti Muhamed Jusic
“In Bosnia we have 140 years experience of administrating Islamic affairs in a secular state” | Euronews
History & Culture
An Interview with Idris Mears
British Muslim Idris Mears about his conversion in Islam, his life and his books.
Tatar community in Finland: a case for European Muslims
The Tatars provide a good example of successful integration: they have adapted well to Finnish society as hard-working citizens, while managing to maintain a close community. The Tatar community has not asked for outside help but has, through its own resilience, acquired good-quality premises for itself and been able to maintain two graveyards. It has also set an example for[Read More…]
Clans of Sapient Virtue – Shaykh Ahmad Ali Adani
Rather than a focus on feeding ideological clans, which met their extinction as quickly as they sprang into life, notable Muslims in the past took great care to nurture evergreen trees of excellence within their households. That was true of Morocco and Jakarta, or Syria and Khorasan in between. In this nimble writing, which is meant to be no more[Read More…]
Islam belongs to Prussia
The history of German-Muslim relations is long. The “Soldier King” Frederick William I had in 1732. Converted a riding stable to a mosque. Statistically, Islam has been a part of Germany for long time. Muslims have been living in Germany for centuries, currently there are nearly five million of Muslims living in Germany. About fifty percent of them are German[Read More…]
The Inner Saracen
Islam and European knighthood, part 2 The Inner Saracen There is a quite popular plot in some scholastic treatises and different chivalric proses of XIV-XV centuries. Saladin, in that plot, becomes seriously curious about Christianity, even considering to convert to it (or initially with a different purpose), he travels to the West in a company of his former captive, Hugh[Read More…]
Islam and European knighthood
Once I came across a YouTube video, representing a selection of engravings by Gustave Dore on King Arthur’s legends on the background of the overture from Wagner’s “Parsifal” — nice artistic work, I really liked it. What grabbed my attention were the comments below: “And now, all this great European culture is been destroyed by Muslims”, declared one; the other[Read More…]
Cultural innovations in Al-Andalus
Culture is often a difficult topic to study historically. How did present-day cultures develop? What other regions and times have affected our modern-day cultures? How were ancient cultures different from our own? One of the best ways to address such questions is to look at some of the cultural giants of the past. One of these giants was a Muslim[Read More…]
Calligraphic inscriptions in the Ottoman Bosnia
At the end of 15th century and at the beginning of 16th century, we already meet first domestic calligraphers and copyists, even at that early period, Tasmanian craft is developing and first domestic masons of tarih and epitaphs appear. The first important inscriptions by domestic masters are observed on the domed mosques at the beginning of 16th century. That is[Read More…]
European Muslim women in Granada
A conversation with the group of European Muslim women in Granada.
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