My take on Jewel of Medina over at Slate: Jones is just doing what Spellberg herself writes about: how muslims have always refashioned aisha in their own image.
Islam News @ NYT- Driving Miss Saudi: Young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in “Saudi Time.”
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- A Dispute on Using the Koran as a Path to Jesus: “The Camel Method” for preaching to Muslims has prompted controversy among Southern Baptists.
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historylover 10:45 pm on September 11, 2008 Permalink |
Yes but sunni muslims have always greatly respected and loved Aisha (RA) and all muslims have greatly loved the Prophet (SAW)
baraka 6:30 pm on September 14, 2008 Permalink |
O Lord. That book excerpt was so badly written and painful to read. The Jewel of Angina (as Willow termed it) indeed.