Results of Writing Competition
As our readers remember THE FOUNTAIN announced in its third and fourth issues a WRITING COMPETITION –The Islamic…
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Transfer of technology from the Islamic world to the West
INTRODUCTION Technology is the tool of civilization, and for Islamic civilization to have been such a leading force…
How is that Islam, a religon inspired by Allah for the good of humanity, allows slavery?
There are historical, social and psychological dimensions to this question, which we must work through patiently, if we…
Al-Andalus: The Lost Civilization
How many people now know who Ibn Hazm, Al-Mu’tamid, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Ishaq al-Butruji were, or even where…
Right to Food
More than a billion human beings on this planet are chronically hungry: every 24 hours some 40,000 die…
Racism : The destruction of humanity
In the April 1992 issue of Scientific American, Allan C. Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann published a study…
The Main Factors in the Spread of Islam
Islam, in the tenth century, was the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of…
Outer space: Mankind’s new frontier
It is barely three and a half decades since the Soviet Sputnik entered orbit in 1957. It was…
Human Rights Abuses and Islam
The ideology of Western civilization claims the concept of human rights as its invention. In fact, Islamic Law…
What will become in the Hereafter of those who were born and live non-Islamic countries?
Those who put this question imply: ‘Since we believe in God and His Prophet, we will go to…
Islamic Perpective on Knowledge and Learning
Progress in knowledge and technology may be likened to the widening ripples caused by a pebble thrown in…