Have a look at a terrific set of black & white portraits from the streets of Amman, Jordan, taken by a Malaysian photographer. In other news, this past Friday was the 10th anniversary of my marriage, walhamdulillah. I wouldn’t change a thing, but 5 (and a half) kids, 4.5 circumnavigations of the planet and 8 […]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Mawlid Barzanji
12 Rabi’ul Awwal has come and gone again. In the past, I’ve written about a famous book of poetry about the birth of Prophet Muhammad (s) called Mawlid Daiba’i. Actually the Mawlid poetry more widely read in Malaysia is Mawlid Barzanji, named after its composer, Imam Zayn al-`Abidin Ja`far ibn Hasan al-Barzanji (d. 1177) (r). […]
It’s Official
I’m going home! After more than four years living in Kuching, I’ll be making a short trip home for a little vacation.  It’s for three weeks only, from the end of May to the middle of June.  I fly into Chicago to see some old friends and then wend my way to Detroit after that. […]
Islamic Banking
Is It Really Kosher? is an interesting article by Aaron MacLean on the rise of Islamic Financing around the world. Some of the article’s better points: …“money always looks for the best deal.†if Islamic finance couldn’t provide results close to those of secular institutions, it wouldn’t exist. … The rational profit motive never lost […]