Age of Al-Sayyida Aisha When She Married the Prophet Muhammad (peace and mercy of God be upon him)

A very thorough article.

Television and consumption

This is not another one of my rants on television, this actually is evidence to support my previous posts. It is taken from the website of one of the top journals of consumption.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Does Television Make Us More Materialistic?
by L. J. Shrum
University of Texas at San Antonio
James E. Burroughs
University of [...]

Some articles on Education, Technology and Community

These are some interesting articles I have read on the topics mentioned above.
On Education
On Technology and community
And Imam Zaid on what we should be teaching our children: Article

Essay on Middle East and Modernity

Contributed by our second historian. Enjoy
Middle East and Modernity
This paper aims firstly to establish a working definition of modernity and then to discuss whether the beginning of modernity in the Middle East can be attributed to a particular point in time or episode. Within the Middle East, particular attention is paid to the [...]

Being a real Man-Yahya Birt

Tony Montana, 2Pac, 50 cents and other pseudo men are the role models for most of the young men today, not just in the West but also in traditional Muslim countries. This article is an interesting analysis of the MTV version of Masculinity and the Islamic concept of a REAL MAN.
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/drugs.htm

Deenport Ethnographic Study

Ethnographic Study of www.DeenPort.com

Introduction

This report summarizes my ethnographic work on www.deenport.com a virtual community with membership exceeding 1500. I start of with a description of my membership experience in the community, followed by a detailed sociological analysis of this community, questions of membership, power structure, shared behavior of [...]

Religion and Ethnicity

I pulled out these pages from my MSc thesis, some of you may find the discussion useful.
Comments appreciated.
 Religion and Ethnicity
As we argue above it is important to understand the subjective understanding of these concepts for the immigrants, and not assume fixed meanings of these terms for immigrants. Below we will discuss alternate views on questions [...]

Re-revisiting Aurangzeb:

I am very happy to provide here the first, of hopefully many essays, provided by our Historian. It is an excellent article.
Enjoy … Please leave comments .. our historian thrives on complements .. no harsh words please, although, for what it is worth healthy criticism is useful, but negativity gets us nowhere .. right? Just [...]