In an age consumed by obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer, many people have shifted towards what is known as “Prophetic Medicine” as an alternative to conventional medicine. But what does Prophetic Medicine mean and does it even exist? I was invited on the Ahmed Khan Podcast recently to discuss the origins of Prophetic […]
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Dr. Mutaz al-Khatib is currently Assistant Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, as well as the first-of-its-kind MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Damascus (1997) and in Arabic […]
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From time to time I engage with a subject that creates some unrest with a cohort of Muslims who feel like I’m attacking them. As Allah ﷻ is my witness, I only mean to benefit my Muslim brothers and sisters, strengthen our community and prevent harm from entering our practices. At the last Al-Madina Institute’s […]
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I noticed that some readers of my recent posts insist on misreading them. Nowhere do I deny the spiritual dimension or that the reality of the human being goes far beyond what the materialist conception wants to assert. I also don’t demand that the soul be measured under a microscope. As I said in my […]
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We live in the age of the online Wild Wild West, where anyone can produce anything about any subject and share it in a way that can reach millions in a very short amount of time and have people assume a level of conviction about it that rivals the most sectarian and militant of believers. […]