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Monday, July 31, 2006

differences between schools

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I'm intrigued by the prospect of trying to understand the differences between the madhabs. I know that people often try to gloss over th...
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murabitun gathering

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I've been thinking about the Murabitun movement recently. A few days ago someone mentioned them to me out of the blue, and I was actuall...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

islamic ecumenism

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From The American Muslim, I thought I would include Shia-Sunni Dialogue: Maulana Kalbe Sadiq's Theology of Islamic Ecumenism by Yoginde...
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willie lynch: the next chapter

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Rand Report's attempt to change Islam lets the cat out of the bag and describes explicit plans on the part of Western policy-makers to ...

fatima's hand

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For a while now I've been kind of intrigued by the image of Fatima's hand (Jews call it the hand of Miriam). First, it is interesti...
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religion or ideology?

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Imam Zaid Shakir recently wrote an article called Islam: Religion or Ideology? on the dangers of viewing Islam superficially as a political...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

quran and woman

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I recently finished Amina Wadud's book Quran and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective. It was basically an e...
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my journey as a muslimah

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I just "discovered" a new blog called My Journey as a Muslimah from Sumayah Fayed, a Hispanic Muslim woman writer. Say hello.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

latino muslims seek answers

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"Am I still a Chicano?" he asked. "We have this Islamic identity and, being Latino, we have this Catholic background. I'm...
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"the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"

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The previously mentioned connection between Star Trek and (the allegedly Jesus-inspired) A Course in Miracles also reminded me of the follo...
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cause he is the truth

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I was just struck by the fact that as I was finishing up the previous piece on what is "real" and what "isn't" India...

nothing unreal exists

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The other day, I had a conversation with a friend who is in the middle of reading A Course in Miracles, a popular spiritual self-help book w...
Monday, July 24, 2006

"i saw the bullet cry, i heard the man fall"

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I've included a number of references to Louis Reyes Rivera (aka the Janitor of History) before on Planet Grenada, but this is probably t...

more on heru, the pan-african spoken-word artist

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I already blogged about Heru a few months ago but here is a second helping. To be honest, I'm actually kind of proud of him. I guess I ...

a deobandi with a difference

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Also from The American Muslim site is the article A Deobandi With A Difference: Waris Mazhari on the Imrana Affair by Yoginder Sikand. This...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

spanish muslim woman jailed in florida

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This story is a couple of months old but it is really ironic and somewhat fitting for the blog. I only recently found it at The American Mus...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

ideology and temperament (the habashis)

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A sufi response to political Islamism: Al-Ahbash of Lebanon by A. Nizar Hamzeh and R. Hrair Dekmejian is an interesting article, a bit on t...
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Monday, July 17, 2006

roots in the sand

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This is just so random that I felt like sharing. Roots in the Sand is a film on Punjabi-Mexicans in Southern California about a hundred yea...
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ideology and temperament

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Something I've been thinking about for a long time is the tendency for some folks to frame significant differences between Muslims in id...
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Friday, July 14, 2006

scholars ask why latinos view blacks poorly

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Diverse Online: Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly by Christina Asquith summarizes a 2003 survey of blacks, whites and Hispanics (...
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