Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.

A person can sometimes wake up knowing the solution to a problem that their subconscious has been working on.

Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.

We've all changed quite a bit since freshman year (thank goodness), but some people have particularly glowed up.