Friday, May 9, 2014

Shaikh Naazim 'Adil al-Haqqani: a giant of our time passes on

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Sh Naazim prays on the top of Table Mountain, Cape Town .   © Shafiq Morton ON 7 May the Muslim world lost one of this era’s most ext...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Twentieth Anniversary of the Shaikh Yusuf Tricentenary

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On 2 April, 1994, over 100,000 Muslims dressed in white paraded through the streets of Cape Town - free for the first time in 300 years. Th...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Remembering the Tricentenary: 20 years on

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© Shafiq Morton IN April, we will mark the 20th anniversary of the Tricentenary Commemorations of Islam in South Africa. They were he...
Monday, March 24, 2014

You and your vote: to go big or small?

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LOOKING back at file images of the iconic 1994 elections there are some profound things that strike one. Firstly, there is joy – all th...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

On praiseworthy differences, the insecurity of having to be absolute

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SOME time ago, after a rather fruitless discussion about innovation in Islam, I tweeted:   ‘the intellectual insecurity of having to ...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Lebanon war photo essay

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IN 2006 I went to Lebanon during the 34 day summer war when Israel bombed the country's infrastructure in an attempt to wipe out Hezbol...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The modern-day Khawarij: out of the fold of Islam

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THE kidnapping of South African schoolteacher, Pierre Korkie and his wife, Yolande, in Yemen have thrown in  sharp relief a bleak socio-...