…the Prophet Muhammad and the “conflict” over moving the black stone. All of the tribes wanted the distinct honor of moving the stone and taking it to the Kaa’ba. The…
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…and sexual assault. This shift has spurred changes in public attitudes, policy, and law. States have passed over 660 new laws to combat domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, and more victims…
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…entire Muslim community in the U.S. Specifically, Ms. Rahman highlighted a well-known New Jersey case in which an imam testified on the rights of the husband in a Muslim marriage…
“The constitution is the backbone of any nation,” Judge Mohamed Abdelaziz Ibrahim profoundly stated at KARAMAH on the evening of December 10th. Because constitutions define a nation’s core principles, KARAMAH…
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This past Thursday, KARAMAH felt for the first time this month the true spirit of Ramadan. One of Ramadan’s greatest blessings is the gift of community, in which Muslims and…
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…Zero in New York, which forges the American Muslim identity with a design unlike any other seen in the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia. Ms. Eskandari then moved…
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…the organization proposes new secular ideas, the KARAMAH staff explained that we are not proposing new ideas; rather, our work is based on “the best of Islamic tradition and jurisprudence.”…
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…against Muslims we have seen since 9/11 is nothing new. Anxiety surrounding Islam in the New World dates to the conquest of the Americas by European explorers. The specter of…
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…are guided right.” Quran, 2:157. Our thought and prayers are with families of the New Zealand mosque massacres. A suspected white nationalist terrorist killed 49 Muslim worshipers at two mosques…
…second marriage was valid because the Husband was divorced at the time he married the Wife. Note: This ruling was distinguished in 2nd Circuit, New York case, Shikoh v. Murff,…
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