500 Most Influential Muslims

The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center: has
published a book listing the 500 Most Influential Muslims (in the World) for 2009.

Looking at the people who made it in there I suppose they took the broadest meaning of ‘influence’ possible!

Download it from here: http://www.rissc.jo/

Crescent Quran Corpus Syntactic Treebank

 

Crescent Quran Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the syntax, morphology and Arabic grammarCrescent Quran Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the syntax, morphology and Arabic grammar for each word in the Holy Quran. for each word in the Holy Quran.

Syntactic Treebank

One in four is Muslim, study says

A report from an American think-tank has estimated 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world – with 60% in Asia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8296200.stm

Download the report:

http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=450

Book review of Farid Esack’s Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism

Book review of Farid Esack’s Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism,

Oxford: Oneworld, 1997.

by Abdal Hakim Murad

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/esack.htm

Behind the Arabic name

Salam

I found this article interesting.
It’s a presentation about the Etymology of Arabic Names for an English audience.

Page 3 has an informative map on Languages of the Muslim World

http://www.basistech.com/knowledge-center/arabic/behind-the-arabic-name.pdf

QiblaLocator

It’s a simple and effective way to locate the Qibla (direction of the Kaa’ba) without using a compass or knowing which direction North is. All you need to know is where you are and know how to look at a map.

http://www.qiblalocator.com/

Deconstructing the Al-Jazeera Logo

Al-Jazeera Logo

The Guard Who Found Islam

Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners at Gitmo. What he saw made him adopt their faith

http://www.newsweek.com/id/190357?digg=1

A Nice Site for Da`wah

http://www.islamic-invitation.com/index.php

Madinah Hotels

May Allah Take us all there!

http://www.haraj.net/madinah/