The Madinan Way

Custom is a matter on which a community of people agree in the course of their daily life, and common usage is an action which is...

This is another of the principles on which Imam Malik often relied when deriving judgements and in that respect Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal...

The great majority of scholars of ethics incline to the view that the governing measure of all that is good and evil in any action is the...

From what we have seen it is clear that in order for the fiqh of zakat to be properly applied again and the pillar of zakat restored to...

Linguistically zakat means growth, increase and purification. In the shari'a the term refers to the amount of money or kind taken from...

These ayats and hadiths referring to zakat are accepted by every Muslim. No Muslim denies the central role of zakat in Islam as an...

The 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan famously stated in a piece in the New York Times in 1993, “May I offer you the...

An unfortunate misconception among today’s American Muslim community is that Islam has only been present in America for less than 100...

Abu Muhammad Sidi ‘Abdul-Wahid ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Ashir was one of the great Maliki scholars of Morocco. His lineage can be traced...

Introduction From during the era of slavery some three hundred pages of Arabic texts remain extant. A close study reveals that all but...