Sheikh Maulana Nazim on C-SPAN – 1998
2nd International Islamic Unity Conference – 1998 from Haqqani OSMANLI on Vimeo. Sheykh Maulana Nazim Kibrisi speaking at a conference in Washington, DC in 1998. Mawlana Sheykh Nazim says that Allah is...
View ArticleSteps to the Formation of ‘Palestine’ [1] – We were ‘handled’
T.E. Laurence “Laurence of Arabia” – His report of January 1916: “Husayn’s activity seems beneficial to us, because it marches with our immediate aims, the break-up of the Islamic bloc and the defeat...
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Umar Lee on RIM: Rand Institute Muslims – Point 3,4,5 – Masculinity
Points 3,4,5 are really the same thing said in three different ways. 3. Getting them to Condemn Homosexuality is Like Pulling Teeth Blah. Obviously every single group of Shariat abiding Muslims...
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Early Ottoman Muslim View of the Printing Press
Figure 1.1 and Figure 1.2 Figure 1.3 The seriousness and persistence with which scribes and scholars in the Islamic world were able during that period to preserve and transmit the text of the most...
View ArticleAftermath of The Battle at Sarikamish
120,000 Ottoman soldiers, out gunned and ill prepared for winter conditions, were driven to their fate, not only at the hands of Russian heavy artillery, but, to frostbite under the command of Enver...
View ArticleOttoman Time Keeping
You may have heard that the Islamic Day ends at Maghrib (sunset) time. Imagine a society which actually lived this rather than it being an interesting fact. The Ottoman Turks commence their reckoning...
View ArticleKissing Hands – Ottoman and Islamic Custom
From Imam Bukhari’s Adab al Mufrad: 973. ‘Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Razin said, “We passed by az-Zubda and were told, ‘There is Salama ibn al-Akwa’. I went to him and he greeted us. Then he brought out his...
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Caravan of the Royal Gifts (SURRE ALAYI)
CARAVANS OF ROYAL GIFTS (SURRE ALAYI) The word surre means the gifts and precious goods that were donated by the Sultan and citizens of the Ottoman Empire every year and which were sent to Mecca and...
View ArticleHadith on Kingship
The Prophet (S) predicted a period of successorship, then a trying kingship, and a tyrannical kingship, and then a successorship based on the pattern of Prophethood (in that order). Islam experienced...
View ArticleThe Caliph at Jummah
Every Friday the sultan would attend Friday prayers in one of the mosques of Istanbul, a tradition known as selamlik. The alkish (literally, ‘applause’) that is mentioned in descriptions of this...
View ArticleLast Calipha – Sultan Abdul Hamid Han – The Carpenter
All the evidence shows that Abdulhamit II was a master carpenter who, had he not been a sultan, could have become extremely rich from plying his trade. It would be no exaggeration to say that his...
View ArticleOttoman Sharia Laws on Spousal Abuse – 16th Century Examples
Contrast the following with the fact that it wasn’t until 1977, with the Pennsylvania Protection from Abuse act, that broad sweeping changes in legislation altered the domestic abuse problem towards...
View ArticleShaikh al-Akbar Ibn Arabi (ks) – An Ottoman Legal Edict Passed by Sheikh...
An Ottoman legal edict passed by Sheykh al-Islam Kemal Pashazade Teacher of Sultan Selim the Resolute All praise is due to Allah who brought us to the level of knowledge and obedience so that we might...
View ArticleOttoman Poetry – Shahi, Prince Bayezid
Prince Bayezid was was one of the sons of Sultan Suleyman I. The Prince is described as being most amiable and accomplished, and beloved by the people and the soldiery, many of the latter accompanying...
View ArticleOttoman Naqshbandi – Sobriety in Devotional Practice [1]
Rather, it went to the very heart of the unique Naqshbandi way of seeking God – what the manuals called, after Abd al Khaliq Ghujduvani (ks), khalvat dar anjuman, that is “solitude within society” or...
View ArticleOttoman Naqshbandi – Sobriety in Devotional Practice [2]
Other Naqshbandi’s ventured to defend the vocal dhikr against critics. We recall that the seventeenth-century Medinese Sheykh Ibrahim al-Kurani entered into an argument about this issue with a...
View ArticleTwitter Updates for 2009-06-23
Ottoman Naqshbandi Devotional Sobriety – http://bit.ly/RwC1a # One could do a long case study on what happens to Salafis when they get involved in phd programs. #
View ArticleThe Letter of the Last Calipha, Sultan Abdul-Hamid Khan, To His Sheikh
This message of Abdul-Hamid Khan, the last Sultan having real power over the Ottoman Empire, was written in the times when the Sufi knowledge was so authoritative that each Islamic...
View ArticleCaliphal Deputization
Sharia Law or One Law for All D Rosser-Owen 2009 [source] Excerpt: These relate to the legitimacy of the British Crown in appointing qadis and imams, and an Office to oversee these people and their...
View ArticleRevisionist History And Ottomans – Sh. Jihad Brown
The National – Sheykh Jihad Brown – 01 August 2009 Revisionist history in the Middle East likes to think of the Ottoman years as an episode of Turkish domination. The reality, however, was far from...
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