African American Muslims: A Possible Future

In past posts I have discussed the importance of heritage, culture and history as they relate to various peoples all over the world. But the severity of this issue may not be understood by all. In fact some of us may just think, heritage, culture and a person’s historical lineage are interesting but benign facts [...]

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Book Meme: The History of the Ottoman Turks

Alright folks, its time for another meme. Muslims have been putting out a number of memes lately. This one is a book-meme coming from the Saha Blog.

The Rules:

You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book around you.
Look for the fifth sentence.
Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page [...]

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New Category: Biographies

The Sirat an-Nabawiyya is the recorded history of the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (may Peace and Blessings be upon him). It is the biography of the Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) from which most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived. I will be [...]

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Believing Bloggers (Part 1): Religion on the Internet

From time to time I spend a few moments looking at trends on Blogpulse. Its a habit, trending and statistics is part of what I do for a living at the hospital, so you can’t blame me for being interested in what the spectrum of internet chatter looks like in a line graph. Anyway, [...]

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brnaeem’s Famous “Reese’s Puffs To-Do List” Meme Tag

This meme was cooked up by chef brnaeem, an American Muslim of Pakistani heritage currently living in Saudi Arabia, as something to moisten our palate and appease our appetite for the interesting and unusual. Therefore, I would like to honor the tradition of brnaeem, by giving it my best shot at being “interesting” and “unusual”. [...]

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