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July 2013

July 11, 2013

Advice: In love with a Muslim man

Dear Love, InshAllah, I find myself in a hard situation with a Muslim man I...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

For the love of music

It was really cold. I was starting to get annoyed. I was on the platform...

June 20, 2013

Yes, this is about marriage

Tell us we're being picky. Tell us there is no perfect man. Tell us our...

June 13, 2013

Advice: Dating Newbie

Dear Love Inshallah, At the age of 25, I am fairly new to the world...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Me, Myself & I

Editor’s note: Writer Ihssan Tahir is coming on board as a www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah monthly columnist! Look...

May 16, 2013

Why I Don’t Compete in Love

In the past couple of years I’ve watched friends, former lovers and exes alike choose...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

Friday love: The Single Muslimah

We're loving this Tumblr page, The Single Muslimah - full of hilarious gifs and spot...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

The Big M

Last year, while I was interning in New York City and commuting via public transit...

March 14, 2013

It started with a wink

It started with a wink. My husband David and I met on Match.com when he...

March 07, 2013

Advice: Not everyone has a happy ending

Dear Love InshAllah, I'm reaching out to you now because no one in my life...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Description: Single Female/Superpower: Writing

If you are a single woman who seriously writes, this can be a serious issue....

January 02, 2013

Old World Lessons on Love

Born in the 1970s at the tail-end of the women’s lib movement, I was a...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Loving via Skype

After my second divorce, I took a break from relationships to decide what I wanted...

November 14, 2012

What The Heart Wants

As a child, I was told that a good Afghan girl does not do anything...

November 01, 2012

Dating in Iran

My first long-term relationship was with an Iranian woman I met shortly after arriving for...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Unexpected prayer

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me."...

October 25, 2012

Learning womanhood

It wasn’t until I had sex that I truly saw myself as a woman. Gender...

October 04, 2012

Confessions of a recovering sex addict

The note hanging above my desk reads: “Love is the answer.” I look at it...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Chasing life

“You need to dress sexier,” a friend in New York says, "Show some skin, go...

September 11, 2012

Single Girl, Asian Daughter

Cartoonist and writer Connie Sun's hilarious take on the plight of the single, Asian daughter made...

September 10, 2012

The God of Marriage

Beautifully written and insightful post by Avital Chizhik in the New York Times on the...

September 06, 2012

My Deadline Dilemma

My life is all about deadlines. As an up-and-coming journalist, I can’t function without a...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Eighteen Dates in Ninety Minutes

On a cold New York night in a dimly lit dive in the Lower East...

August 01, 2012

How Muslim are you?

Are you Muslim? …How Muslim are you? …No but, really…how Muslim are you? I get asked these questions,...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Like a virgin

One of the most meaningful aspects of Islam for me was the rule about no...

July 05, 2012

Interfaith Voices

The NPR show Interfaith Voices invited editor Nura Maznavi to discuss Love, InshAllah and her...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

The Last Virgin

I'm going to die a virgin. Possibly. If I died tomorrow. Or maybe a couple...

May 08, 2012

Properly in love

“How many times have you been properly in love?” It’s a question that Piers Morgan,...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Will Allah listen?

I am a thirty-something Pakistani Muslim girl living in Canada’s capital. I have never written...

March 20, 2012

How to buy a house. Or marry a girl.

I suppose the best way to classify how K and I met would be through...