The most important reason for the fragmentation of the Maghrib-and the loss of Andalus-was the loss of legitimacy of rule. More

Agricultural production was a casualty of the drop in population. When food production dropped, many of the settled tribes became nomads. More

Islam, by contrast, liberates humankind not only from the individual ego, but also from the prison of racism, tribalism and nationalism. More

Ibn Khaldun is justly regarded as the father of sociology and the philosophy of history. He was the first to advance a general theory of the rise and fall More

The Merinides in Morocco reached their greatest strength under the Emirs Ali and Abu Inan (1331 to 1357). More

The defeat at Las Novas de Tolosa (1212) was a result of several interrelated political, religious and economic factors. More

The Crusades in Palestine ended with the victory of Salahuddin at the Battle of Hittin (1186). This was also a period when Al Muhaddith power was at its zenith in the Maghrib. More

What is Vilayat? And who is a faqih? There is no consensus among scholars as to the meaning of these terms. The term Vali appears in multiple contexts in the Quran. More

What is Wilayet e Faqih? I remember a conversation with a young Iranian scholar almost thirty years ago. More

Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini towers high as the central figure in the events leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was a religious scholar, a revolutionary, a political leader and an ideologue all rolled into one and a principal player on the world stage in the second half of the twentie More

Sulaiman, the eldest son of Orkhan. In 1354, Sulaiman captured the Fort of Gallipolis. Ankara was captured the same year. When Sulaiman died in an accident in 1356, the march passed under the leadership of his brother Murad who stormed and captured Erdirne in 1357. More

The valley of ‘Ayn Jaaloot is 65 kilometers South of Hitteen, where the Battle of Hattin broke out in 583 A.H., 75 years before that of ‘Ayn Jaaloot, and about 60 kilometers West of Yarmook, where the Battle of Yarmook broke out between the Muslims led by Khaalid ibn Al-Waleed and Abu ‘Ubaydah ibn Al-Jarraah, May Allaah Be Pleased with them, More