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Abdassamad Clarke
Writings on science and other topics, and occasional articles and discourses

ASFA
As Sunnah Foundation of America

Br. Sajad's Qasidah Gateway
Dedicated to the importance of Qasidah Nasheed and Salawat

Escape to Dhikr-tory
Muslim Organic Farmer in UK

Guidance Media
Helping to spread the light of guidance from Tarim

Living Islam
Motherlode of traditional scholarship with lots of articles by GF Haddad, Sidi Afifi al-Akili and more

Marifah
Knowledge and Realisation

Masud Ahmed Khan
traditional scholarship

The Halal Journal

Centers of Learning

Nawawi Foundation
The objective of the Nawawi Foundation is to disseminate the knowledge of Islam and provide Islamic guidance for Muslims in the West.

Sunni Path
Shafi'i and Hanafi online education

The Jawziyyah Institute

Zaytuna
Traditional Islamic Teaching and Dawah - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Publishers, Booksellers and Merchants

Alhambra Productions Inc.
Quality Products to Nurture the Mind, Body, Heart, and Soul

Amal Press
Sidi Aftab Malik

Astrolabe
Astrolabe Islamic Bookstore -

Fons Vitae
Publishing and Distribution of books on Sufism, Sufi life, World Religions, Islam, Spirituality and Interfaith Dialogue

Illume Media

Illumination Magazine
Enlightening the Ummah

Sandala
Home of the Qasida Burda

SHUKR
Islamic Clothing for Muslim Women, Men and Children

Purification of the Soul

Naqshbandi.org
Naqshbandi-Haqqani

Naqshlive.com
Naqshbandi-Haqqani Live: Photo galleries and AV

Shadhili Tariqa

Shaikh Ahmed Al-Alawi - Ba'alawi Tariqah

Advocacy

ISCA
Islamic Supreme Council of America

The Radical Middle Way
British Muslim Site

Learn About Islam

I've assembled a list of links of Islamic resources that I feel are useful or above average in quality. It is a work in progress. I don't necessarily agree with any or all of the information you might find by following these links, but I hope that it is a good place to start.

Briefly

The Spiritual Aspirant: Sidi Khalil Moore will be in Singapore conducting a workshop for The Spiritual Aspirant, to be held 27 June to 5 July. I had the pleasure to hear Sidi Khalil speak in Detroit back in 2002 in conjunction with the US tour of Habib Ali Al-Jifri. I regret I won't be able to make the short trip across the South China Sea to attend, but I recommend it to anyone in the area. The workshop is being sponsored by Simply Islam, under the capable hands of some of the fine people who put on the Journey to Ihsan event a couple years ago, which I did attend and enjoyed immensely.

Collapse Preparedness: The transition from the USSR to the republic of Russia was a catastrophic event for the people who lived through it. The eventual (imminent?) collapse of the US will be much much worse, warns Dmitry Orlov. The USA has a Collapse Gap. Orlov realizes

that some people will react rather badly to having their country compared to the USSR. I would like to assure you that the Soviet people would have reacted similarly, had the United States collapsed first. Feelings aside, here are two 20th century superpowers, who wanted more or less the same things – things like technological progress, economic growth, full employment, and world domination – but they disagreed about the methods. And they obtained similar results – each had a good run, intimidated the whole planet, and kept the other scared. Each eventually went bankrupt.

Valuable lessons on what to expect and how to prepare follow. Read it yourself, but the condensed advice is this: Live on the margins of society. One encouraging sign that Americans are picking up the skills they will need to survive: haggling at the mall.

Brass Crescent: Nominations are open for the annual Brass Crescent blog awards organized by AltMuslim and City of Brass. Hurry on down and nominate your favorites. There's even a brand new category for Best South/Southeast Asia Blog! *cough cough*