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City of Brass
Al-Fateha
By
Aziz Poonawalla
I started City of Brass in March 2002 at Blogspot, and moved to Beliefnet in August 2008. Over a thousand posts and a million page views later, it is time to end this chapter and start a new one. However, I am not technically going anywhere – Beliefnet recently acquired Patheos, where I am going…
Valentine’s Day Mubarak!
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Aziz Poonawalla
Happy VDay to all! Or, belated VDay depending on your madhab – according to Saudi moonsighting Valentine’s was yesterday 😉 The Gujarati origins of what was then known as “Velan-time Day” are well-established in the historical record. Rather than buy into the predictable Dour Mullah narrative, let’s celebrate the virtues of mohabbat on Valentine’s Day.…
happy birthday, Aamer! (and Tiger, too)
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Aziz Poonawalla
One of my best friends on the planet turns, um, 34 (ahem) today. Happy birthday, Aamer! Aamer has been a guest poster on this blog, and one of his favorite pieces of mine was his exposition on Hajj as a near-death experience from last year. I hope to coax more posts out of him in…
Hiatus
By
Aziz Poonawalla
City of Brass will be on a short hiatus starting today and all through next week. I am sure most of the blogsphere will not even notice, but for anyone who does actually stop by here to read what I have to say, I think you’ll find Talk Islam a far superior substitute in my…
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