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As the worlds oldest digital library, it offers more than 75,000 public-domain books for free. It was founded in the United States in 1971 by Michael Hart, who made it his life’s mission to digitize and share cultural works. He named it Project Gutenberg in tribute to Johannes Gutenberg, the German inventor of the printing […]

Ahmad OkbelbabAhmad OkbelbabauthorView profile6 October 2025

The English proverb says, “Words are like arrows: once released, they cannot be taken back.” The Arab world was shaken—almost to the point of turmoil—following a statement by Saudi Sheikh Saleh Al-Moghamsy on That, a program broadcast by Saudi TV during Ramadan 1445 AH. Despite his stature as the former imam and preacher of the […]

One of the foremost duties of our present time—amidst the rapid transformations in knowledge and modes of thinking—is to revisit the curricula of Islamic education, which in many contexts have become trapped in repetitive traditional frameworks, detached from nurturing the capacity for ijtihad, and oblivious to the needs and challenges of the modern era. It […]

I recently read a book titled The History of Law in the State of Qatar (2024), authored by a group of law professors. What particularly captured my attention was the second section of the first chapter, which focused on the legal and customary systems before Islam. It revealed to me the features of a deeply […]

Many opinions about Imam Ibn Taymiyyah have reached my ears—some praising him and others criticising him. Countless books about him have come into my hands, and I have come across just as many, if not more, television episodes, YouTube videos, and never-ending opinions. This drove me to read his books and fatwas myself to understand […]