📚 Research & Reflection
Essays & Articles
Researched writing on where our families come from, what our names mean, and how our faith shapes both — every piece here is sourced, referenced, and open to correction.
Researched writing on where our families come from, what our names mean, and how our faith shapes both — every piece here is sourced, referenced, and open to correction.
Many Bangladeshi families — including ours — carry a story that an ancestor came from Arab lands. What does the historical record actually show about how Islam reached Bengal, and what can a family really claim from oral tradition alone?
Read the Essay →A generation-by-generation look at the lineage connecting Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) — and an honest look at what is firmly established versus what scholars still debate.
View the Lineage →The Prophet ﷺ renamed people whose names carried bad meanings, and taught that some names are dearer to Allah than others. A look at authentic hadith on why Islam takes naming so seriously.
Read the Article →Across the Muslim world, women have always kept their father's name after marriage. The custom of a wife taking her husband's surname has a very different, very Western, and surprisingly recent legal history.
Read the Article →These pieces are researched as carefully as we can manage, with real sources cited throughout — but none of us are trained historians or scholars of fiqh. Where scholars disagree, we've tried to say so plainly rather than pretend to certainty we don't have. If you spot an error or have a correction with a source behind it, please reach out — this is a living project, and we'd rather be corrected than be wrong.