On Saturday 1st May, the EDL – English Defence League – come to protest in Aylesbury against “Shariah Law” and “extremist” Muslims. What we all know is that the EDL is largely made up of football hooligan thugs who can’t ply their trade at football grounds and have to find alternative sources of entertainment and so “protesting” on a Daily Mail driven agenda seems the easiest thing to do. The EDL are so repugnant that even everyone’s favourite hate-monger Nasty…
The 26th of May will mark a defining moment in Western Muslim history, as the two foremost Muslim scholars will share an audience of politicians, policy makers, scholars, theologians, journalists, media representatives and a host of other figures who have an interest and influence in the highly topical field of Islamic Reform.
The Mantle Adorned is a completely new translation of the Burda (‘Mantle Poem’) of Imam Sharaf al-Din al-Busiri (d.1297). Abdal Hakim Murad has consulted the classical commentaries to produce this clear and careful English version. Abdal Hakim Murad has added to each verse a further verse of poetry by another poet, which expresses a similar sentiment of love for the Blessed Prophet. The book therefore serves as the best collection currently available in English of poems in praise of the…