Plants of the Qur’ān
PA, Kew Gardens to host exhibitions exploring Islamic culture, 30 March 2023 Plants of the Qur’ān – Exhibition details here
Not Even Water
Not Even WaterSeries 2: Best Behaviour Please – Episode 3 of 5 This episode of Not Even Water had some interesting thoughts on content creation, along with an interview...
‘Islamic Authority and Centres of Knowledge Production in Europe’
Masooda Bano, Journal of Muslims in Europe, 11:1, Islamic Authority and Centres of Knowledge Production in Europe, 2022 Another one for my reading list. “The centrality of the Qurʾan...
Timbuktu: Qur’an Manuscript Fragments
Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, HMML, Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections, 16 Mar 2023 This is really interesting. Do check out the whole article....
Turkey Photo Essay
Eren Orbey, A Turkish Photographer’s Tribute to the Girls of Quranic Schools“In the book “Hafiz,” Sabiha Çimen depicts young Muslims forming their own “playground of the imagination.”” Recommended photo-essay
Qur’an text use
Mothership, Online store apologises for selling swimsuits & pyjamas with prints of Quranic texts, 23 June 2022 “A TikTok user has called out an apparel website, which claims to...
Predictive Facebook
The New Arab, Quran predicted Facebook, internet says Egyptian preacher“Egyptian Islamic scholar Mabrook Atiyah has caused a stir in Egypt by saying that the Quran predicted the internet and...
Qur’an “in your pocket”
So, farewell to the iPod. It was an important innovation at the time, not least in the area of Cyber Islamic Environments. I wrote about how it became possible...