{"id":167,"date":"2008-12-23T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/12\/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar-1.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T11:55:25","slug":"5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/12\/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar-1.html","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Brass Crescent Awards Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/\">altmuslim.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\">City of Brass<\/a>,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;d like to thank the nearly 1000 people who voted in the Fifth Annual<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasscrescent.org\/\">Brass Crescent Awards<\/a>. Voting was very close in most categories, and we<br \/>\nwould like to be the first to congratulate our winners and Honorable<br \/>\nMentions, as well as extend our thanks to all the nominees and voters<br \/>\nfor helping make this celebration of the Islamsphere a success. We also<br \/>\nwould like to thank everyone (including the nominees) who linked to us<br \/>\nand helped publicize the Brass Crescent Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The winners in each category are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tariqnelson.com\/\" target=\"new\">Tariq Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BEST DESIGN:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manrilla.net\/blog\" target=\"new\">The Manrilla Blog<\/a> (Marc Manley)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST FEMALE BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/themuslimah.com\/\" target=\"new\">The Muslimah<\/a> (Umm Layth)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST GROUP BLOG: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimmatters.org\/\" target=\"new\">Muslim Matters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BEST HUMOR BLOG: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maniacmuslim.com\/\" target=\"new\">Maniac Muslim<\/a> (Hamzah Moin)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST NEW BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/luckyfatima.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"new\">Lucky Fatima<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BEST NON-MUSLIM BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/\" target=\"new\">Informed Comment<\/a> (Juan Cole)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST POST OR SERIES:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenmystic.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/07\/female-muslim-and-mutant-a-critique-of-muslim-women-in-comic-books-%E2%80%93-part-1-of-2\/\" target=\"new\">Female, Muslim, and Mutant<\/a> (Broken Mystic)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST WRITER:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"new\">Rickshaw Diaries<\/a> (Baraka)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST ASIAN BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/islaminchina.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"new\">Islam in China<\/a> (Wang Daiyu)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST SOUTH ASIAN BLOG: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/teeth.com.pk\/blog\" target=\"new\">Teeth Maestro<\/a> (Awab Alvi)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST EUROPEAN BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/\" target=\"new\">Indigo Jo<\/a> (Matthew Smith)<\/p>\n<p><b>BEST MIDEAST BLOG:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.black-iris.com\/\" target=\"new\">Black Iris<\/a> (Naseem Tarawneh)<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasscrescent.org\/\">the official Brass Crescent Awards website<\/a> for the runner-up Honorable Mentions in each category, as well as category descriptions. <\/p>\n<p>We also would like to thank our judges&#8217; panel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Svend White of <a href=\"http:\/\/akramsrazor.typepad.com\/\">Akram&#8217;s Razor<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Umm Zaid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnisisters.com\/\">Sunni Sister<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Laura Poyneer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhajabah.com\/islamicblog\/veiled4allah.php\">veiled4allah<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yahya Birt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahyabirt.com\/\">Musings on the Britannic Crescent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and a special thanks to our sponsor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubepublishing.com\/main.asp?page=content&amp;C_ID=9\">Kube Publishing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This was a great year for the Awards and we look forward to a great year of blogging ahead, for next year&#8217;s Awards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of both altmuslim.com and City of Brass, we&#8217;d like to thank the nearly 1000 people who voted in the Fifth Annual Brass Crescent Awards. 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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\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}