Amaliah × National Art Pass Presents: In conversation with Artist Khadija Said
By day, Khadija Said works for a charity, by night and on weekends she can be found drawing and painting. Her art is defined…
24 Questions to ask yourself Before Marriage
When we embark on the journey of seeking a spouse there are so many questions that arise about the other person but what’s equally and…
8 Muslim Sex Educators and resources
For this piece, we’ve listed some of our fav Muslim sex educators and compiled them in one link-galore post. We have also listed podcasts and…
Your 10-point financial guide to moving abroad
To move or not to move? The idea of living in a foreign land where a new cultural experience awaits is a dream for many.…
5 Ways to Start Living More Ethically Today
“Any decision that has an impact on others now or in the future is an ethical choice,” explains ethicist and author, Christopher Gilbert in…
How To Use Pinterest to Set Your New Year Goals
Tidy Vision Board, Tidy Goals. You may have read in Nafisa’s 8 Point Guide to Setting Your New Year New Me Goals that something she…
8 Ways you can choose to travel better
It’s become a cliché to say that the pandemic has completely changed the way we travel. But, except for the superficial changes of hygiene protocols…
Give people their flowers while they are still alive: A reflection on love that is grief
In the past few months, in the wake of all that’s upturned the world, I’ve built an intimate relationship with grief. It seems like…
Muna knows it all: The One Woman Play
Following the sold out productions of Home (2019) and Arawelo (2019), Muna Knows It All was presented at rich mix and performed in front of…
Intimacy in marriage: 9 things we can learn from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
I’d never thought of our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as a lover. A lover of God, yes. But as a lover, lover? Not really. His…
13 Books about Black Muslims
We have a few of these books featured on Amaliah but we thought it was time for a curation of some of your fav books…
The Muslim as Monster: Re-Defining ‘Muslimness’ Beyond False Binaries
There’s something about those crackling, black and white movies and the feeling they elicit. That Sunday afternoon comfort of a duvet and a movie with…
Hustles + Hobbies: Interview with Artist Jannat Hussain
At Amaliah, we’ve started a series talking to women who are championing the art of hobbies. We’ve spoken to Esra Alhamal about the art of…
Suicidal thoughts and low iman: how PMDD could be affecting your faith and mental health
Disclaimer and Trigger Warning: This article, or pages it links to, contains information about suicide that may be triggering. The information contained within this article…
Women are working for free and these are the 5 organisations working to put an end to it
If you’re a woman reading this, as of today, you’re likely not being paid for the work you do. According to April 2020 figures,…
10 Books to understand how islamophobia became a global industry
As the dust settles from the New Zealand attacks, I hope everyone will not let these events go by in vain and will actively resist…
Countering Islamophobia through Transformative Teaching
In 2015, incidents of religiously motivated attacks against Muslims in the UK rose by 326%, with more than one in ten incidents taking place in…
Islamophobia is not a “phobia”, it’s a way of governing
Islamophobia awareness month occurs every year. I didn’t actually know that was a thing until last year, and then I forgot again, until this year.…
13 Duas for Anxiety, Worry and Stress from the Quran and Sunnah
DISCLAIMER: These duas are not meant to be used as a substitute for professional help. We encourage you to reach out to mental health…
Womanual Labor: A Work of Reconciliation
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.” — Charlotte Bronte I cannot speak to the status of women in Islam, as I am only…
Centering Black Writers: Identity Politics in Literature
Through concern for history and a clear aim to reflect honesty about their place in society today, black writers have always had an immediate amplified…
How misogyny is breeding a crisis of faith in Muslim women
TW: This article contains discussions of abuse, suicide and suicidal ideation. If you are affected by this or any of the issues raised in the…
Why Muslims Need to Archive Their History
Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative (EMHAI) was established in 2013 to create an archive collection to document and preserve the UK’s lived Muslim experiences.…
Traversing Self Worth and Potential Spouses
My understanding of what was involved in the process of finding a spouse was limited to the classics like Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.…
On the Black Condition: How do we possibly stand up when the very earth is shifting beneath our feet?
Does the passenger of the plane perceive the ground is shifting? It’s likely they don’t as they insouciantly and unabashedly float high in the sky.…
My husband told me “You care more about me being Black than I do.”
Less than a year into our marriage, my husband Musa and I attended the valima (post-wedding reception thrown by the groom) of his high school…
15 Duas for protection from the Qur’an and Sunnah
No matter who we may be or where we are in the world, all of us will go through a trial at some point. As…
The Myth of the Ideal Muslimah
It seems that every Muslim you meet today has something to say on how a Muslim woman should act and the kind of person she…
Book Review: A Virtue of Disobedience by Asim Qureshi
The increasingly polarised political climate in which we live is a source of constant anxiety for many of us. Muslims find themselves surrounded by a…
In Our Arms: The zine project exploring sex for Muslim women
Rather ironically, ‘In Our Arms’, the zine project exploring the pleasures and joys and nuances of sex for Muslim women all started with my rather…
Hustles + Hobbies: Rugby with Zainab Alema
At Amaliah, we’ve started a series talking to women who are championing the art of hobbies. We’ve spoken to Esra Alhamal about the art of…
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Islamic Societies: The Malcolm Code
Black Muslim Forum launched in 2018 out of the necessity to meet the social need in the UK for an organisation that advocated for Black…
16 years disappeared: one woman’s struggle to find her husband
It was a Saturday that started like any other day. Amina, her husband, Masood Ahmad Janjua, and three children were all gathered together, for…
Book Review: Cut from the same cloth
It is not unfamiliar to find Tiktok videos and Instagram reels of Muslim women giving cheeky responses to many ridiculous questions they get for simply…
Dealing with news of abuse in the Muslim community
TW: This article contains discussions of spiritual abuse. If you are affected by this or any of the issues raised in the article and need…
Rethinking our Justice System: Understanding Abolition in the UK
Terms like “Defund the Police” and, indeed “abolition” have been pushed into the mainstream. Activists have been building around it for years. But what does…
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