Muslim World

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Salaam and Greetings of Peace: Who are the hundred most influential intellectuals in the World? After nearly half a million votes, the British monthly, Prospect, and the American magazine Foreign Policy, publish their new list. Alhamdulillah! Muslims make up the top ten spots. Number one is the Turkish writer and the Sufi thinker Fethullah Gülen. who is the prizewinner. He is followed by nine other thinkers of the Muslim World: Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus (second) and Shirin Ebadi (tenth), Nobel Prize winner for literature Orhan Pamuk (fourth), as well as Pakistani Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan (fifth) , Egyptian televangelist Amr Khaled (sixth), Iranian reformer and Rumi scholar Abdolkarim Soroush (seventh), Tariq Ramadan (eighth) , Islamist preacher Youssef al-Qaradawi (third), and Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani (ninth). Read the rest for yourselves and Google their biographies and writings for your children. Inshallah, this is the beginning of another Muslim Age of Enlightenment. The hundred most influential intellectuals can be found HERE. - Edited from the Sufi News and Sufism World Report blog of Thursday, June 26, 2008. Ya Haqq! ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 25 days ago
The Christian Science Monitor - U.S. Senator Barack Obama represents a phenomenon that has drawn global attention and captivated the minds of Muslims around the World as he wages a spirited campaign to become the next president of the United States. ...

Source: islam.about.com --- 25 days ago
Several Muslim countries currently use the crescent moon symbol on their flags. ...

Source: features.csmonitor.com --- 11 days ago
A teenage girl disappears from home, and her body is found in the desert. Cause of death: drowning. It’s a great set-up for a mystery, but Zoë Ferraris takes things one crucial step further in her entirely enjoyable debut mystery, Finding Nouf. ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 12 days ago
While gays and lesbians in Massachusetts and California are free to marry, "A Jihad for Love" demonstrates the cruelty, discrimination and physical peril Muslim... ...

Source: www.indiana.edu --- 6 days ago
Gay Travels in the Muslim World editor Michael Luongo is coming to Bloomington next week to read from his ground breaking new book. Thursday, July 10th, Luongo will be interviewed on BloomingOUT, Bloomington’s own Midwest GLBT Radio Show at 6pm. Following this, Luongo will be doing a reading at Rachel’s Cafe from 6:30-8:30 (300 E. [...] ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 30 days ago
On the northwest tip of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, the inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a possible refuge for Osama bin Laden. With the high peaks of the Hindu Kush range and its narrow valleys, it's easy to dodge through secret mountain routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 35 days ago
The One Woman Initiative is a fund supporting women’s empowerment activities in countries with large Muslim populations. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 29 days ago
Xinhua News Agency Jun 9 2008 8:04AM GMT ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 22 days ago
Gulf News Jun 16 2008 8:41PM GMT ...

Source: www.nst.com.my --- 29 days ago
KUALA LUMPUR: Islamic countries and the West must work together to regain mutual trust, respect, understanding and cooperation in the quest for World peace and security. ...

Source: www.militaryphotos.net --- 14 days ago
Forum: Political Discussions and Rants Posted By: Greg27 Post Time: 06-24-2008 at 06:06 PM ...

Source: www.arabnews.com --- 11 days ago
With the publication of "Muslim World Almanac 2008," a group of individuals based in Makkah and Jeddah has done a remarkable job. Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef has rightly said in his preface: "Seldom... ...

Source: www.japantoday.com --- 19 days ago
A young Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama — and in front of TV cameras — at… ...

Source: www.antara.co.id --- 20 days ago
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said yesterday Islamic countries are required to secure a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. ...

Source: www.modbee.com --- 26 days ago
U.S. Senator Barack Obama represents a phenomenon that has drawn global attention and captivated the minds of Muslims around the World as he wages a spirited campaign to become the next president of the United States. ...

Source: blog.macleans.ca --- 12 days ago
For all the seriousness of the charges, the trial of Momin Khawaja has provided some moments of great hilarity. A lot of it comes from the attempts by the Crown attorneys and Justice Rutherford to come to grips with the peculiar mix of hip-hop and jihad that is emerging from the emails of MMK to [...] ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 22 days ago
The image of the United States remains overwhelmingly negative in most of the predominantly Muslim countries surveyed, a latest global poll revealed on its website. According to the Pew Global Attitud... ...

Source: www.directionsmag.com --- 7 days ago
My Community, Our Earth (MyCOE) has selected 25 elementary and secondary school teachers from the Middle East/North Africa region to attend its specialized training program on geographic information systems (GIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. Training will be held August 12–15, 2008, at the ...