Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Trial Over the Quran
A Baghdad hadith scholar faced flogging and imprisonment rather than call the Quran created, and Sunni Islam remembers why he held firm.
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Fatima al-Fihri and the Founding of al-Qarawiyyin
How a ninth-century merchant’s daughter in Fez used her inheritance to found a mosque that grew into the world’s oldest working university.