Pakistan at 73: Where next for the Muslim world’s only nuclear power?
As Pakistan turns 73, Jahangir Mohammed, of the Centre for Muslim Affairs, looks back at the country's history of survival against the odds, war...
EXCLUSIVE: Caliph Abdulhamid’s great-grandson on Hagia Sophia and Islamic revival
In this exclusive interview with the great-grandson of Caliph Abdülhamid II, deputy editor of 5Pillars Dilly Hussain discusses the restoration of Hagia Sophia Mosque and...
The restoration of Hagia Sophia Mosque: Symbolism, hope and Islamic revival
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, speaks with Dr Yakoob Ahmed - a Ottoman historian at Istanbul University - about the restoration of Hagia...
Crusader carnage and the fall of Jerusalem
The bloody fall of Jerusalem to the Christian Crusaders on July 15, 1099 was one of the darkest days in Islamic history.
The culmination of the...
DEBATE: Dilly Hussain vs Roshan Salih on Hagia Sophia restored as mosque
5Pillars editors Roshan Muhammed Salih and Dilly Hussain debate whether the restoration of Hagia Sophia as a mosque is Islamically justified.
POSITIONS:
Editor-in-chief Roshan is of...
Mimar Sinan – Islam’s greatest architect
Mimar Sinan, arguably the greatest and most influential architect of all time, died 435 years ago in July, 1588.
Born in Anatolia in 1489, he...
Moazzam Begg: A plea for the release of Tauqir Tox Sharif
The Outreach Director of CAGE, Moazzam Begg, issues a plea to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to release British aid worker Tauqir “Tox” Sharif.
When Abu Hussam...
Muslims need to create their own social media platforms
Muslims are facing unprecedented censorship and pressure from social media companies and that’s why we must urgently create our own platforms, argues 5Pillars editor...
U.S. police brutality and military aggression: From Black America to the Muslim world
Hakeem Muhammad from the U.S.-based Black Dawah Network, says the United States has exported the kind of brutality it afflicts on Black Americans to its...
Neturei Karta: The Orthodox Jews who oppose the existence of Israel
Most Jews around the world support the state of Israel and the ideology of Zionism, but there is one ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that denies...
