{"id":73,"date":"2008-10-23T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/listen-islam-podcasts.html"},"modified":"2008-10-23T08:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T08:03:30","slug":"listen-islam-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/listen-islam-podcasts.html","title":{"rendered":"Listen Islam: podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/\">Talk Islam<\/a> there is a new feature called <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.talkislam.info\/\">Listen Islam<\/a>, which features podcasts between bloggers in the Islamsphere (and beyond) about various topics related to Islam. There are already two great podcasts posted, the first by myself and <a href=\"http:\/\/razib.talkislam.info\/\">Razib Khan<\/a> (who runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/gnxp.com\/\">GNXP<\/a> website and is an avowed atheist) about the validity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.talkislam.info\/2008\/10\/sunnis-shia-protestants-and-catholics-oh-my\/\">analogy between Catholics and Protestants when comparing Sunnis and Shi&#8217;a<\/a>. The second podcast is by two women, <a href=\"http:\/\/muslimmusings.wordpress.com\/\">blogger Muse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwillowwilson.com\/index.php\/site\/blog\">writer Willow<\/a>, about <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.talkislam.info\/2008\/10\/willow-and-muse-on-mahr\/\"><i>mahr<\/i>, the practice of bridal gifts<\/a>. We had a lot of fun putting these together and inshallah we will have many more at Listen Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s direct links to each podcast:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.talkislam.info\/2008\/10\/sunnis-shia-protestants-and-catholics-oh-my\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Sunnis, Shi'a, Protestants, and Catholics, oh my\">Sunnis, Shi&#8217;a, Protestants, and Catholics, oh my<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.talkislam.info\/2008\/10\/willow-and-muse-on-mahr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Willow and Muse on Mahr\">Willow and Muse on Mahr<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Talk Islam there is a new feature called Listen Islam, which features podcasts between bloggers in the Islamsphere (and beyond) about various topics related to Islam. 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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\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}