online rihla

Weather here has been pretty cruddy as of late.  I’ve lost count of the number of tornado sirens that have gone off in the last week.  But alhamdulilah, nothing major has happened up in our neck of the woods. 
The same cannot be said for many of our midwesterly neighbors to the south.  The flooding in […]

From ISIM via MR:
By Stéphane Lacroix
When on the first of October 1999 Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani passed away at the age of 85, he was mourned by virtually everyone in the world of Salafi Islam. To many, he represented its third main contemporary reference, after ‘Abd al-’Aziz bin Baz (who himself had died a few […]

on the blogs I read
Climbing Walls - an American Muslimah living in Palestine, her whole blog is chock full of posts on Palestine.  More recent posts include 1000 Year Mosques destroyed in wake of the Nakba and Al Jazera reports on Palestinians.  *added 9:36 am* Her blog about Palestine day post is up - Judaizing East […]

If Americans Knew - what every american needs to know about Israel
Remember these Children
Since September 2000
982 Palestinian Children
and
119 Israeli Children
have been killed
 Innaa lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raaji’oon
to God we belong and to Him is our return

As a child, family vacations consisted of each child carefully packing a box of books and colored pencils, my mom baking weeks worth of almond chocolate chip muffins and everyone piling into the family van for a 3 week road trip to some scenic and/or historic american destination.  On these family vacations, I developed a […]

 Via Deenport:
Fascinating.  Saint George and the Dragon was one of my favorite books as a kid.  I’ve never really approached Christianity before Muhammad (saws) from this perspective before:
George’s death occurred around the fourth century AD, some 300 years before the last prophet of Islam completed the Message of God to His creation with the Qur’an. […]

Before yesterday, I knew that Marmaduke Pickthall was an english convert to Islam and that he had translated the Qur’an.  Then I read this biography by prof. Abdal-Hakim Murad (also a spiffy guy).  SubhanAllah!  If I could accomplish 1/10th of what he did, I would be well satisfied. 
He died in a cottage in the West Country on […]

via Deenport
The Islamic Tradition and Historic Conflict Resolution in Timbuktu
Fascinating, I hope I can find more on these practices. I took an African History class freshman year, but can’t remember much. Guess I’ll have to dig around to find my old books and re read about Timbuktu, and browse the Libraries of Timbuktu website.

Passed on to me by my friend Noura, take time to explore this beautiful look at Islamic History and the art it created.

Discovery Islamic Art Online

I had a hard time picking which pictures to include in this post, as each era produced such unique and fascinating art.

Ceramic tile with a picture of the […]