A positive review, by Charles Moore of all people, of a new book on British Muslims by Atif Imtiaz.
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thabet
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Lawrence of Arabia
David Sax reviews Howard Jacobson’s new book, The Finkler Question, which centers around the nature of Jewish identity.
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thabet
Manan Ahmad writes about the ‘cultural damage’ of the ‘war on terror’.
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thabet
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AA
Oldest known manuscript of “The One Hundred and One Nights” identified.
Interesting story: http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-761/i.html
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thabet
Imagine a cricket team founded by J. M. Barrie, and including notable players such as A. C. Doyle, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Walter Raleigh, and P. G. Wodehouse.
Now imagine it was called Allahakbarries.
(Via @musabb.)
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Willow
This…this is the best thing ever.
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mirelle
You are so right.
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aziz
At Harvard this weekend: exhibition on Contemporary Muslim Voices in the Arts and Literature.
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thabet
Martin Amis: ‘I wish my sister had converted to Islam’.
(Covered in more detail by Muslimah Media Watch.)
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christian
islam is incompatible with democracy and leads to economically stagnant and unimaginitive societies. The Muslim world is still in the dark ages. You are barbarians. You live by the sword you die by the sword. You do not pray, you only observe. Your religion is empty. You only want to enslave and oppress like you have done to the Africans. Islam is a heresy and a fanatic religion. it is terrorism
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thabet
Andrew Brown was right in noting that the response by British Muslims to Sebastian Faulks’ interview in The Sunday Times (for which he apologised) was almost non-existent (contrary to claims by Ian O’Doherty). At least I haven’t seen anyone telling me to burn copies of Birdsong, or demanding we protest against A Week in December. Perhaps we’ve grown up a little.
Ajmal Masroor’s, of the Islamic Society of Britain, did offer some words though:
Masroor’s words have obviously been picked up by jafis as a ‘veiled threat’ (but to them any Muslim who is living and breathing is a ‘veiled threat’). Maybe the words have been badly reported and edited, or maybe Masroor (who some may remember from the hilariously bad Make Me a Muslim series on Channel 4) could have chosen his words more careful. Better yet, offer a response to Faulks’ comments rather than demand he say nothing at all out of respect (which is always a double-edged sword).
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plimfix
In a reverse of my head clasping over Zia Sardar’s journalism, I have to credit him with hitting the nail smartly on the head in respect of this issue.
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thabet
I think this may interest some readers on this blog:
C. S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles and Screwtape Letters, and J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, had planned in the 1940s to write a book together about Language. According to a letter written by Tolkien in 1944 to his son Christopher, the collaborative book was to be called Language and Human Nature. A news release from their publisher announced that the book was scheduled for publication in 1950. It was, however, never published. Scholars have thought, until now, that it was never started.
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Shams al-Nahar
wow….i would love to read that book.
right now im reading Cavalli-Sforza– Genes, Peoples, and Languages.
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mirelle and 
christian is discussing. 
Shams al-Nahar is discussing. 
This evening Jacobson won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question.