Can a book be haram? This is a complex question. Intrinsically, books are simply words on a page, notes strung together, images.

Growing up, everything was considered haram. You got a bank account? Haram. You wear jeans? Haram. You got your ankles out? Haram!

This gallery looks, and feels, like the Sistine Chapel of the Anthropocene.

He always thought it kind of poignant that his working year should begin when most people felt like the year was starting to end.

Ishmael felt the sharp cold edge of the dagger on his sweaty neck. His father held the knife. He was going to slaughter him.

Poems by Mevlut Ceylan.

Three poems by Samantha Terrell.

Tal al-Malouhi, aged 18, was arrested by the Assad regime in December 2009. She still hasn’t been released.

There are many contemporary biographies of the Prophet Muhammad. But they make him feel distant or too difficult to emulate in our times. Joel Hayward’s The Leadership of Muhammad is certainly not such a work of seerah.

At time of writing, the official death toll in Israel-Palestine since 7 October 2023 stands at 35,173 Palestinians, including over 14,500 children, 8,400 women and at least 498 people in the West Bank; and 1,139 Israelis, all of whom were killed during the 7 October attacks by Hamas and other Gazan militias.