Surfing Behind the Wall

Look behind the wall, it's always interesting there...

Friday, September 18, 2015

Staring at the moon

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Photo Shafiq Morton THERE is a view that moon-sighting, or the physical observation of the lunar crescent, is an anachronism – an out-...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Seeker's Hub in Azzawia, Cape Town

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IT could be said that the towering spirit of the late Sayyid Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki (one of Islam's greatest scholars of moder...
Friday, July 31, 2015

District Six moods, Cape Town

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Ramadan, picking the fruits

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THE Qur’an is many things to many people. It is a tapestry of injunctions, prophetic history and natural wonder; it invokes Heaven and c...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Moonsighting, Cape Town, Ramadan 2015

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In spite of the bitter cold and rain squalls coming from the Atlantic, over 1,000 people attended the traditional moon sighting for the ...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Islam in China: a tale of two minorities and Ilham Tohti

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“SEEK knowledge, even unto China” go the words in a famous Hadith. And whilst some academics may regard this Prophetic tradition as wea...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

ISIS and slavery: a state of “Islam” before the Qur’an

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Amsha Alyas, who escaped ISIS after her husband was killed. She was sold to an ISIS commander. Mashable.com TWO-hundred and twen...
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