Koran recitation being done on Twitter for Ramadan, verse by verse – BlogPost – The Washington Post.
“What verses speak to you when you read the Koran this day? That’s what we’re looking for,” Rashid said. “The way we engage with scripture is always changing as our lives change. We can ask each other questions.”
My name is islamoyankee | My Name Is Me.
Online I am islamoyankee. I didn’t name my blog, islamicate, after myself, but after an idea. The idea is that Muslims are not Islam, and that they are people who are engaged in creating culture. Some of that culture is religiously defined, and some of it not. It is culture that is constructed with non-Muslims as well. I don’t use my name real name in talking about these ideas, because I want a name that also engages with them. I built a virtual identity blogging, on YouTube, on Twitter, and on Flickr to engage with this basic principle.
Who is Ali (as), the universal hero of Islam? – City of Brass.
As we begin the first night of Ramadan, I think of the first promise we made to God. We bear witness that God is our Lord (7:172). From God’s desire to lead us, he left us nubuwwah and then Imamah. To be the mu’min, the one with faith, means following the guidance of the Qur’an, the Prophet, and the Imams. To me, that ethical message, particularly of service, rings the loudest. This Ramadan is a chance for me to dedicate myself to that vision as articulated by Imam Ali, and carried forward by his descendants.
altmuslimah – Ramadan: Ramadan on Twitter- A Cyber Celebration.
Another interesting aspect to the concept “Ramadan on Twitter” is an effort being made by many to tweet the Quran throughout the month. AltMuslimah is also involved in this pursuit, and our tweets can be found on our Facebook page and Twitter feed, with the hashtag #TTQ. We are joining our colleagues such as Hussein Rashid, who began tweeting the Quran in 2009, after seeing Rabbis tweet the Torah.
Thanks to the folks at Faith in Public Life/Bold Faith Type, I see that part of my appearance at the Newseum is online.
Congressman: Misunderstanding of Islam Continues in the US | News | English.
Meanwhile, Hussein Rashid, a lecturer and a Muslim activist in New York, regrets that not many Muslim leaders have emerged lately. He believes it is because Muslims are not good at telling their stories.
A tweet feat: Quran goes on Twitter for Ramadan – USATODAY.com.
Ramadan, which begins with a sunup-to-sundown fast Monday, calls on the Muslim faithful to immerse themselves in scripture — ideally by reading the entire Quran.
In 2009, Hussein Rashid, a professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, noticed rabbis using Twitter to highlight snippets of Torah text to celebrate Shavuot, when Jews say Moses received God’s word at Mount Sinai.
“I saw they were creating a virtual way to pray and study together, and I thought it would be fun to invite a few friends to tweet the Quran for Ramadan. By the next year we had hundreds posting at #Quran and it will be even bigger this year,” he says.
Today, PrepareNY officially launched. We are an interfaith coalition dedicated to helping NY heal after 9/11. Below are two trailers we used for today’s launch, and a copy of the press release.
Press Release for launch of PrepareNY
9/11 A Decade Later: Interfaith Coalition To Encourage Religious Tolerance On September 11th
“Although Prepare New York is an interfaith coalition, the work we are doing is for the city, is for the country,” says Dr. Hussein Rashid of the Quest Center for Spiritual Inquiry. “So we want to do is reach people where they feel comfortable, not where we feel comfortable.”
Join us on Wednesday, June 29th, for a riveting discussion about Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism with Ari Gordon, Assistant Director of Interreligious Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, and Hussein Rashid, Educator and Consultant on Interreligious Affairs. Please see here for more details.
7:30PM
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