Last week, I explained that the Ottoman Empire’s restricting the printing press also impacted their ability to grow human capital. Even...

The picture shows a woman being dragged into a van by three people; one person is inside the vehicle pulling the woman inside with some...

Last week, in my blog about gender ambiguities, I mentioned the problems that Dave Chappelle encountered when he made a few jokes about...

There is a widespread perception that music is generally forbidden in Islam. The Qur'an, the first source of legal authority for Muslims,...

The photograph that accompanies this blog is a close-up of a Muhammad sculpture taken by Franz Jantzen of the North Wall Frieze in the...

Last week in a federal courtroom in Alexandria Virginia, a British national admitted he was a key part of the Islamic State’s actions to...

Before Muhammad became a Prophet at 40 years old, he was a businessman – a trader who worked caravans. The Prophet Muhammad was a...

According to Lexico.com, a player is a person or group involved and influential in an area or activity. I am covering in this blog who...

Some Muslims are highly participative in their religion, while others are not. Some people grow up as Muslims but are lukewarm in their...

I teach a course called International Business, and one of the lessons I urge my students to study is how culture affects the values of a...

Just recently, the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a well-known gay bar, memorialized the five-year shooting tragedy that left the...

The picture that accompanies this article shows the headlines that was in the New York Times newspaper on April 26, 1915. Read the blog...

That was the headline of a story in the Jerusalem Post a few days ago, May 24, 2021, to be exact. To summarize, the son, a 47-year-old...

Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, is often labeled as a pedophile because of the age of his bride, Aisha. Critics allege that when Aisha...

Located in the eastern corner of the Kaaba is the Black Stone of Mecca, whose now-broken pieces are surrounded by a ring of stone and...

Last week in my posting “Marketing to Muslims, Part 2 of 2”, I mentioned that Muslims would find products to buy that are halal or...

To sell products to Muslims, vendors must ensure the products are either halal (permissible or lawful) or sharia-compliant. The very...

Many of my readers are non-Muslim business-people. In the West, marketing is an assumed business function, and many business leaders are...

Today’s blog may take a few extra minutes to read, but it covers an important scientific study. Let me explain. I was perusing some...

It is common for Muslims when conversing with non-Muslims, to refer to their religion as one of peace. In Western countries, Muslims are...