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Month: February 2009

Praise of Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace)

Praise of Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace)

Rejoice one and all, the season of the Mawlid is upon us . . . “Love of the Prophet is like the blood in the veins of the Muslims” – Muhammad Iqbal poet and philospher. Considering that we are in the Blessed Month of Rabi al-Awwal, the month in which our Beloved Prophet Muhammad was born in, I would like to share with you an essay I wrote for the CD sleeve notes on Inayet Petker’s nasheed CD called “Salutations”…

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New Book: Love in a Headscarf

New Book: Love in a Headscarf

Love in a Headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the One Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Love in a Headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the One This is the highly entertaining and personal story about her quest to find ‘The One’. It gives you a further insight into being a young Muslim woman in Britain today. Nicely written and very compelling, it is a?fun memoir from an often overlooked perspective – a very welcome change from writings from the ‘repressed Muslim woman’ and ‘Muslim rebel’…

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Does a single Islamic Culture exist?

Does a single Islamic Culture exist?

There is really no such thing as a specifically identifiable monolithic “Islamic culture”, when Islam embeds itself into a country, culture or society, the norms of that society are generally accepted with proviso that the practices do not violate a principle of the Shariah.