Tag: Persian

20 December 2021

Late Prof. Bert Fragner Proved Role of Persian in Spread of Islam

He is one of the authors of Encyclopedia Iranica in the field of history of economics.

16 February 2018

“YOU DO NOT SOUND AMERICAN”: A LIVE INTERVIEW ON WGN-TV, with a persian Muslim girl

I could go on, but I think these three points in particular work to highlight the absurdity of this interview the best. Thank you Heba & Nausheen for literally buying this interview from a third party so I could share and dissect it. Also shout-out to whatever editing/lighting that was done to make my skin look a few shades darker.

07 January 2018

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Persian New Muslim physician and psychologist

On the Quran he said: “When I was a Christian I used to say, as did an uncle of mine who was one of the learned and eloquent men, that eloquence is not one of the signs of prophethood because it is common to all the peoples; but when I discarded (blind) imitation and (old) customs and gave up adhering to (mere) habit and training and reflected upon the meanings of the Qur’an I came to know that what the followers of the Qur’an claimed for it was true.

19 June 2017

Muslim scholars wrote about evolution 900 years before Darwin was born

When you hear about the theory of evolution, English scientist Charles Darwin is probably the first person who comes to mind. ‘Muslim scholar’, on the other hand, is the last thing to be associated with the theory.But, Muslim scholars beg to differ.