by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Apr 5, 2016 | Personalities
The founder of the social sciences and the greatest Muslim historian, ‘Abdu-r-Rahman Wali’ud-din Muhammad ibn Khaldun, was born in Tunisia on 27 May 1332. His forefathers had migrated from Hadramawt to Seville (in Spain ) in the ninth century AD and were...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Apr 5, 2016 | Personalities
His hair looked dishevelled and his whole appearance was unkempt. He was thin and wiry with so little flesh on his bones that it was painful to look at him. Yet in single- handed combat he defeated and killed many opponents and in the thick of battle he was an...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Apr 5, 2016 | Personalities
Amr ibn al-Jamuh RA was one of the leading men in Yathrib in the days of Jahiliyyah. He was the chief of the Banu Salamah and was known to be one of the most generous and valiant persons in the city.One of the privileges of the city’s leaders was having an...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Apr 5, 2016 | Personalities
Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn `Amr, al-Imam, Abu `Abd Allah al-Humyari al-Asbahi al-Madani (93-179). The second of the four major mujtahid imams, whose school filled North Africa, al-Andalus, much of Egypt, and some of al-Sham, Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, and Khurasan. He is...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Apr 5, 2016 | News
Faizel Patel, 2016-04-05 A motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma in Parliament has failed. The Democratic Alliance (DA) led motion was debated in the National Assembly today. No one abstained from the vote, with 143 Members of Parliament (MPs) voting the...
