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Wang Daiyu has created several very cool …

aziz — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:32 +0000

Wang Daiyu has created several very cool desktop wallpapers that feature a map of China and the famous hadith of the Prophet, “seek knowledge, even as far as China”. I love how “Peace be upon him” looks in Chinese.

Incidentally, he also has compiled some defenses of that hadith from its detractors.

Al-Albani: more Wahhabi than the Wahhabi …

thabet — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:37:16 +0000

Al-Albani: more Wahhabi than the Wahhabis (pdf).

Reinterpreting Islam?

Tariq Nelson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:33:46 +0000

An article in Newsweek on the effort to reinterpret Islamic theology

Momentum is building within the Muslim world to re-examine what had seemed immutable tenets of the faith, to challenge what had been taken as literal truths and to open wide the doors of interpretation (ijtihad) that some schools of Islam tried to close centuries ago.

Personally, I believe that an ‘American’ Islam will take a different shape than that of the Muslim World