Aziz Poonwalla has a very nice site called Unmedia, which he strips down to just religious issues at Shia Pundit. I stumbled onto his site through an ugly altercation over at ismailroyer.blogspot.com. It’s great to find a well-written site from a muslim perspective that is fully engaged with American culture and unafraid to honestly critique […]
Monthly Archives: October 2002
Islamic Books Online
Hizmet Books has lots of islamic books available for free, some in simple html and some in PDF. The english collection is not great, only about a dozen texts, but they are based in Turkey and have books translated into Bosnian, Albanian, Russian, Uzbek, even Polish! What looked like the best book there in English […]
Veiled4Allah
Al-Muhajabah was kind enough to add my page to the list of links at her extensive, worthwhile website. JazakAllah Khayr. I’m more than happy to return the favor. Among the offerings at her site are links to dozens of muslim blogs; plenty to surf through if you are looking for individual rather than institutional muslim […]
Dalail Khayrat
Now available from Kazi Publications, translated by Hassan Rosowsky with Arabic text alongside, for ten bucks only. Search for “Dalail” from Kazi’s front page and you should find it. Thank you, Hani N!
Now Available!
Qasidah Burda is now available at Alhambra Productions, $59.95 for the 3 CDs and the calligraphed book. I can’t wait…
Mawlid from Malaysia
I was browsing through my site stats and noticed that somebody had found my site by googling for “Nasheed and Mawlid from Malaysia”. Now that is a visitor I don’t want to disappoint! So I’ve collected what I could find on the subject: Alhamdulillah, recitation of praise on the Prophet (saws) is regularly practiced in […]
Isra wa al-Miraj
The 27th of the holy month of Rajab is traditionally celebrated as the date of the Prophet Muhammad’s (saws) miraculous journey to Jerusalem and his ascension from there to the highest heavens. A full description of this very important Islamic holiday and the recommended adab, or ettiquette, for the observant is detailed here. It is […]