An Arctic Mosque

Kim Joseph: Unveiling My Surrender. Throughout the day I was feeling a growing need to reach up and rip off my hijab. Just like that. Take it off and continue with my day. This was not a new thought but an uprising personal realization that had been on my mind for weeks. Because of this, I began wearing my hijab wrapped up and tied in various fashions at the nape of my neck. This simple change felt amazing, and I hadn’t even realized I felt un-amazing. I was standing at the innermost part of the aisle, as alone as I…

Fatima’s Blue Eyes – Haiku « alBostoni. High 5 mashallah, Bicultural synthesis, Fatima’s blue eyes.

An Interview with Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im, Islamic Scholar at Emory University « The Future of Islam In the Age of New Media. As the must-read New Yorker article, The Moderate Martyr notes, “In 1967, a law student at the University of Khartoum named Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim was looking for a way to spend a summer evening in his home town, a railway junction on the banks of the Nile in northern Sudan. No good movies were showing at the local cinemas, so he went with a friend to hear a public lecture by Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, an unorthodox Sudanese mystic…