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• Subhan Allah!

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Turkish Army prays for the 1st time in congregation since Erdogan allowed it after Attaturk banned it almost 90 years ago.

• Love in the Holy Qur’an

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

    click on pic to download the book for free This book was originally a widely-acclaimed PhD thesis at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In it, the author treats, in a simple and accessible style with reader-friendly and teaching-friendly features,… Read More ›

• France: Islamic Declaration of Faith Lands a Moroccan in Prison

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 10, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  reblogged from Morocco World News Rabat – An appeal hearing is set to begin Monday to review the case of a Moroccan librarian who was arrested in the French city of Lille last month for publicly condoning an act of… Read More ›

• Professor Bart Ehrman sets the record straight

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  reblogged from Dr Ehrman’s Facebook page QUESTION TO DR EHRMAN: In my talks with my family I have referenced your work, and my family typically rolls their eyes and tells me that they hold no respect for your work. When… Read More ›

• I want them all!

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Click on: Little Black Classics

• Murad: Universality and timeless appeal of Rumi’s message inspired by Quranic ethos

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

   reblogged from Today’s Zaman The works of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the anniversary of whose passing is celebrated throughout Turkey with Şeb-i Arus ceremonies on Dec. 17, have had a keen following in the Western world since the 19th century. This… Read More ›

• Remarkably silly

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Adam Deen invites Hamza Tzortzis to debate

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 8, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  In a potentially significant move Adam Deen of the Deen Institute has invited Hamza Tzortzis of IERA fame to a public debate Does Islam need reformation? 

• A visit to Waterstones where I bought an extraordinary book..

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 8, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• Is that the time?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• This is taking a book to bed a bit too far

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• After the Apocalypse

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Lets be honest: illegal immigration has been a big problem…

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  225 years ago, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, yet France still denies Muslim women the right to wear hijab in schools, universities and civil service.

• Adam Deen: confronting the dark side

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Interview on extremism – Talk Radio Europe. Adam founded the highly prestigious Deen Institute based in the UK. As always, Deen offers pertinent observations on the challenges facing the Muslim Ummah from ‘puritanical’ Muslims and Wahhabism.

• Anjem Choudary shares his reaction to ISIS’s latest

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 2 )

  The Western media’s favourite Muslim preacher upsets talk show host Steve Malzberg

• ‘a new Muslim cool’ – BBC

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I have come across this Lego-inspired wallpaper graphic designed by Peter Gould in 2013. It says Asalamu Alaikum (Peace be upon you) in Kufic calligraphy. “Peter is among those young urban global Muslims leading the emergence of a new Muslim… Read More ›

• Life in Madinah….

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• The ongoing conflict between secularity and religion in France

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The following comments by the great British sufi writer Martin Lings have a contemporary relevance in light of the ongoing conflict between secularity and religion in France, especially with respect to Islam: “Guenon seems to have had no further contact… Read More ›

• The different forms of sacred art

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its “flamboyant” style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is “intellectual” and not “dramatic,” and it… Read More ›

• Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – The Fitri (Natural) State of Man

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 7, 2015 • ( 1 )

  fitra [noun] – inborn nature, innate disposition fitri [adjective] – natural, innate, primordial

• I love Pre-Raphaelite art

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Saint Cecilia by John Melhuish Strudwick [British Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1935]

• Today would have been Ronald Reagan’s 104th Birthday.

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• كافر‎

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  In the anniversary week of Bertrand Russell’s death, here’s a photograph the great philosopher, pacifist, mathematician and notorious atheist.

• The jizya Verse (Q. 9:29): Tax Enforcement on Non-Muslims in the First Muslim State

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 5, 2015 • ( 245 )

  Here is a fascinating extract from Professor Abdel Haleem’s discussion of The jizya Verse (Q. 9:29). I have copied and pasted the first three pages. If you would like to read the whole article just leave a request in the comments below… Read More ›

• now im just gonna pretend i dont get this joke

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

   

• “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.” Lord Byron was born on this day in 1788. See Thomas Phillips’ portrait of the pin-up poet, dressed in Albanian costume, on display in the National Portrait Gallery, London, Room 18.  I intend to… Read More ›

• ISIS has no patent on deliberately burning people alive, as US and Israeli history shows

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 4, 2015 • ( 4 )

  Denunciations of ISIS are worse than worthless, says Glenn Greenwald, when they are used to make us forget or further obscure our own governments’ brutality. Glenn Greenwald 04 February 2015. The latest ISIS atrocity – releasing a video of a… Read More ›

• Amazing view…

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 4, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

• People resting in the Holy Masjid…

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 4, 2015 • ( 1 )