The Life of Umar ibn al-Khattab: Lessons in Leadership and Justice
Before he was a caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab (RA) was one of the fiercest opponents Islam ever faced in Mecca — a proud, powerful young man who once set out with a sword intending...
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The Golden Age of Islam: How Muslim Scholars Shaped Science, Medicine, and Mathematics
In a library in Baghdad, sometime in the early ninth century, translators worked long into the night turning Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit manuscripts into Arabic. The caliph paying their wages was said to reward...
