In a recent article in the Urdu daily Roznama Islam, Pakistani columnist Zia-ur-Rehman Zia discussed the lessons that Muslims must learn from the the Battle of Badr, fought during Ramadan in 624 between a group of 313 early Muslims led by Muhammad and a 1,000 men from the Meccan Quraysh tribe. In the article, titled "The Lesson of the Battle of Badr," Zia stressed that the
In a June 5, 2023 article in the Egyptian state daily Al-Ahram, journalist Muhammad Hussein Abu Al-Hassan presented and praised the approach of Sheikh 'Abdallah Bin Bayyah, head of the UAE's Fatwa Council,[1] who challenges the Islamist organizations' interpretation of the tenets and commandments of Islam, especially the commandment jihad. Bin Bayyah argues that the extremists
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Ahead of U.S. President Biden's Middle East visit, scheduled for mid-July 2022, there has been renewed speculation in the media regarding possible normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Secret contacts between the countries have been ongoing for a while, but Saudi Arabia has so far refrained from joining some of its allies in signing a peace agreement with Israel. It has linked normalization to a resolution to the Palestinian problem based on the 2002 Arab peace initiative.