{"id":10,"date":"2008-09-02T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/09\/ramadan-for-all.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:15:17","slug":"ramadan-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/09\/ramadan-for-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan mubarak to everyone! (and I do mean, <i>everyone<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>A roundup of Ramadan reactions from around the Islamsphere (aka the Brass Crescent):<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moo observes that preparing for Ramadan usually involves <a href=\"http:\/\/mooslim.com\/blog\/?p=269\">DATCWDWTDWWAFSWDRAS<\/a> (no, I&#8217;m not spoiling that one for you. Go look \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Captain Chaos chimes in with a few additional ways of <a href=\"http:\/\/captainchaos.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/21\/ready-for-ramadan\/\">getting Ready for Ramadan<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2008\/09\/01\/1580\/\">via Muse<\/a> at Talk Islam)<\/p>\n<p>At altmuslim.com. Ibrahim Abusharif observes that Ramadan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/a\/a\/a\/ramadan_counterculture_and_soul\/#When:11:00:00Z\">a season to step outside our cartoon selves<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Aqoul hosts a Ramadan Open Thread in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqoul.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/ramadan_mubare.php\">usual witty, cynical fashion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The London Islamic Network for the Environment invites you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastfortheplanet.net\/\">Fast for the Planet<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2008\/09\/01\/fast-for-the-planet\/\">via Thabet<\/a> at Talk Islam).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xrdarabia.org\/2008\/09\/01\/sighting-the-crescent-moon\/\">via John<\/a> of Crossroads Arabia blog, this Washington Post piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/30\/AR2008083002297.html\">the blend of science and tradition in the moonsighting<\/a> methodology in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofbrass.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Ramadan\">my Ramadan-blogging from last year at old City of Brass<\/a> might be of some interest.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Don&#8217;t miss these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.someecards.com\/upload\/ramadan\/index.html?ep=86\">hilarious e-cards<\/a>: &#8220;may your Ramadan be devoid of blatant racial profiling&#8221;. Also, right here at Beliefnet, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/gallery\/tentipsforhealthfulandspiritualfasting.html\">Ten Tips for Fasting Healthfully and Spiritually<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Ramadanlessons.html\">Eight Ramadan Lessons for All Spiritual Seekers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan mubarak to everyone! (and I do mean, everyone) A roundup of Ramadan reactions from around the Islamsphere (aka the Brass Crescent): Mr. Moo observes that preparing for Ramadan usually involves DATCWDWTDWWAFSWDRAS (no, I&#8217;m not spoiling that one for you. Go look \ud83d\ude42 Captain Chaos chimes in with a few additional ways of getting Ready&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-this","tag-ramadan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ramadan for all - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ramadan for all - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ramadan mubarak to everyone! 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}