online rihla

This will be just a brief post on this weekend.  I took pages and pages of notes, and inshaAllah I will post a few highlights from the lectures and some of my thoughts.
First, the negatives:

Where were the Minnesota Muslims at?  Seriously, one of the best speakers our american ummah has to offer is right in your […]

…if only I had a more of it.  Then I’d sit and watch everything on the newly re-designed Radical Middle Way website.  I’m hoping that they’ll put up videos of all the Habib al Jifri events from earlier this month.  From what I’ve heard, they were awesome and increadibly beneficial to those who went.

Egypt’s Grand Mufti Counters the Tide of Islamic Extremism
Adapting. One thing is absolutely clear, though: Gomaa’s unshakable confidence repeated as often by his protegees as by him”that the inherent moderation and pragmatism of traditionalist Islam make it far superior to anything proposed by puritanical Salafists or Wahhabis or utopia-minded Islamists. Through the centuries and across […]

…chose a madhab?  For all my blurkers out there (and I know you exist), if you follow a madhab, how did you chose it?
My development as a new muslim was rather haphazard, as I didn’t really have a single guide offering a monolythic perspective on Islam.  It seems that converts are often guided towards a particular […]

In honor of black history month, Beliefnet created a who’s who of Blackamerican religious leaders.  Alhamdulilah, my reason number 3 to move to San Franciso (after 1. Zaytuna and 2. Sh. Hamza) is on the list.

Imam Zaid Shakir is an internationally respected Islamic scholar, author, and speaker. A lecturer at the Zaytuna Institute in […]

From Lampost Productions via islamica
by Dr. Abdul Hakim Jackson
They came in fact to Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal who used to say that if your nose bleeds then you have to renew your wudu. Imam Malik said that if your nose bleeds you do not have to renew your wudu. So they went to Imam Ahmad […]

Via Imam (soon to be Sheikh?) Suhaib Webb’s blog:
Egypt Today Article: Faces “Suhaib Webb” by Farzina Alam
As a Western convert to Islam, Webb has found himself in an unusual position: smack in the middle of East and West. Coming to terms with the responsibility such a position holds isn’t always simple. “As Western Muslims, we […]

 By Tariq Ramadan
Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination. To submit ourselves to the order of the Just One and of […]

We’ll see.  Printed it out to read on the bus ride home (in between the VA Suhba).  It does have quite a variety of high level shayook as signatures.  Can’t comment on the variety, as I’m not too familiar with most of the top salafi scholars today, but all my favorites are there.
 A Common Word […]

Via Umm Zaid:
 Egypt Today’s cover story on Sh. Hamza, Mufti Gomaa (woo, look at that egyptian jeem) and Amr. Khaled.