Category Archive for 'islam'

All about Islam

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness. Islam is one of the most followed religions in the whole world and a lot of people from different places follow it. Prophets Islam has Prophets. The Prophets obeyed God’s commandments and their lifestyles are an example for other people to follow. The first Prophet was [...]

The Three Fridays

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Once in Medieval Turkey, an Imam, an Islamic preacher, named Nasrettin Hoca was going to go preach at the local cami. Last Friday and the time before that he had preached from the Koran, the holy book of Islam. Now, however, he had preached the entire Koran and had run out of things to preach [...]

Tales of Islam

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

THE NOVEL, it used to be said, brings the news about our social and moral condition. In the West, many novelists have taken to abdicating that role in favor of political fantasy, epistemological sport, or the fingering of psychosexual wounds. But in the Islamic world, or so it would seem from a number of recently [...]