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		<title>Crescent Quran Corpus Syntactic Treebank</title>
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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
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		<title>One in four is Muslim, study says</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report from an American think-tank has estimated 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world &#8211; with 60% in Asia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8296200.stm
Download the report:
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=450
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		<title>Book review of Farid Esack&#8217;s Qur&#8217;an, Liberation and Pluralism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review of Farid Esack&#8217;s Qur&#8217;an, Liberation and Pluralism,
Oxford: Oneworld, 1997.
by Abdal Hakim Murad
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/esack.htm
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		<title>Behind the Arabic name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salam
I found this article interesting.
It&#8217;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
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		<title>QiblaLocator</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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/
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		<title>Deconstructing the Al-Jazeera Logo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Guard Who Found Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners at Gitmo. What he saw made him adopt their faith
http://www.newsweek.com/id/190357?digg=1
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		<title>A Nice Site for Da`wah</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.islamic-invitation.com/index.php
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		<title>Madinah Hotels</title>
		<link>http://abuusamah.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/madinah-hotels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May Allah Take us all there!
http://www.haraj.net/madinah/
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		<title>The &#8216;first true scientist&#8217; (Ibn al-Haytham)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7810846.stm
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