Credit Photo: Stock Xchng Reviving the Classical Wisdom of Islam in the Cherokee Tradition By Dr. Robert Dickson Crane The Greatest Event in Five Hundred Years On September 21, 2004, the National Museum of the American Indian opened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., after a highly successful fund-raising drive, largely among Native American [...]

Even if historians never took seriously the Melungeon claim to be Portuguese or Moorish, the medical and genetic work cannot be so easily dismissed. Author Brent Kennedy Perhaps Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was Melungeon. It somehow seems fitting that one of America’s greatest Presidents should be of mixed race and probably Muslim [...]

The Inquisition not only hunted for Protestants and for false converts from Judaism among the conversos, but also searched for false or relapsed converts among the Moriscos, forced converts from Islam. The Moriscos were mostly concentrated in the recently conquered kingdom of Granada, in Aragon, and in Valencia. Officially, all Muslims in the Crown of [...]

Auteur: Francisco Pradilla (1848–1921) Boabdil confronted by Ferdinand and Isabella after the Fall of Granada 1492 1492 has long been seen as the “miracle year” of the Spanish realms. This lecture addresses the importance of 1492 from different perspectives and focuses on Jews, Conversos, Muslims, Moriscos, and the natives of the New World. BY looking [...]

Credit Photo: Stock photo: Mr. Lincoln fiqhcouncil.org Author: Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah Islamic thought and sources have contributed both to the radical Enlightenment and early American Revolution. There is crystal clear historical evidence that many of the Founding Fathers of America were either “deists” or “Unitarians”. Both of these Enlightenment ideologies were directly influenced by [...]