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June 2012

June 03, 2012

Bringing the Greater Jihad to the Silver Screen

Check out this wonderful exchange about the nature of jihad in Islam in a recent...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

Hussein Rashid on LGBT Muslims

Hussein Rashid has a thoughtful piece in Religion Dispatches on the need for the American...

July 2009

July 23, 2009

The MSM’s new “Jihadism vs. McSufism” narrative

Br. Yahya Birtfrom across the pond was so kind as to inform me of a much better...

January 2008

January 20, 2008

Non Skeptical Essays on Islamic Law & pluralism

Aasem at Non Skeptical Essays has a stimulating post on Islamic Law. Here's an excerpt...

May 2007

May 05, 2007

Curious geopolitical commentary in a book of Islamic philosophy

Speaking of Iran... I thought I'd share a curiously polemical observation that I came across...

March 2007

March 31, 2007

Salafis, Kalam, complexity, and hijab

Mere Islam (The Salafis and Their Kalam, Kalam, Kalam...) provides links to intriguing critiques of...

March 21, 2007

Geneive Abdo pans the Secular Islamic Summit in WoPo

Don't know how I missed this when it came out, but I just came across...

March 20, 2007

Show prayer times in FireFox with Fzami

Came across a handy Firefox plug-in called Fzami that displays prayer times in the status...

January 2007

January 06, 2007

Latest from The Economist on…the Jinn!

I'm regularly surprised by the breadth of The Economist's coverage of international affairs, but this...

January 02, 2007

Barelvis and Deobandis, still takfir-crazy after all these years

Half a century ago, observers guffawed at the spectacle of Barelvis and Deobandis excommunicating each...

October 2006

October 15, 2006

One man’s passage through Wahhabism and the beef with pigs

[Reposted because I'd left out the link to the article in question.] There's a another...

October 08, 2006

The most “unclean” of all: the Muslim who treats people like dogs

A "Muslim" cabbie in the UK has made headlines (and blogosphere Islamophobes' day) by refusing...

June 2006

June 12, 2006

Literalism and temple demolitions in Malaysia

Worrying developments in Malaysia, which long seemed such a promising laboratory for new models of...

May 2006

May 11, 2006

The problem with the Pulitzers & Islamic reform

A profound analysis from a veteran journalist of the way American journalism today devalues its...

May 10, 2006

Converts, music, & Ridley

I'm going to take down the 2 posts on Yvonne Ridley and converts for the...

May 04, 2006

The tangled web Muslims weave

There are so many things I keep wanting to blog about when I get a...

April 2006

April 12, 2006

Shabana on “Literalistic Wahhabistic Sufism”

I see that while I've been blogging about dancing aliens and even surreal social problems...

March 2006

March 10, 2006

The passing of Rafi Sharif

Another dear friend has passed. Last August, I blogged about the shocking and poignant demise...

March 07, 2006

The passing of Rafi Sharif

This post has been updated and moved here.

February 2006

February 17, 2006

Sufis vs. Shiahs in Iran

Police, Sufis clash in Iran Sufi Muslim spirituality is tolerated under mainly Shia...

February 16, 2006

Wonderful online courses at SunniPath

The good folks at SunniPath have a bunch of exciting new online courses on Islam...

February 16, 2006

Islam & Science

Chanced upon a great website on Islamic thought. I particularly appreciate its broad scope and...

January 2006

January 13, 2006

Shabana on “Clothes, Class and Religion”

My better half just blogged insightfully about the intersection of money, class and gender among...

January 05, 2006

Must Sufis be Muslims?

In the West, there are many who identify themselves as Sufi but not Muslim. Kabir...

December 2005

December 07, 2005

Tearing down Shiahs

Speaking of SunniPath, we happened to have dinner with a Shiah friend and his wife...

December 02, 2005

SunniPath.com on Tariq Ramadan and reformists

Shabana has written a fresh and thoughtful analysis of her concerns about SunniPath.com's view of...

December 01, 2005

Must Muslims reject Evolution?

On a side note, I think it would be interesting to explore the extent to...

November 2005

November 27, 2005