Dear Friends, Good news on Thanksgiving and Eid! Majid Zamani has been released on bail. Please visit http://freemajidzamani.com/ for a message from his family. Thank you for your support and for signing the petition. Warmly, Rushda

Technically, Parsi music. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara. I suppose it's also Zanzibari music.

A friend from Harvard has a new article out on reading the Qur'an. If you can get your hands on it, you should read it. Excerpts are below, with citation information. Whitney Bodman, “Reading the Qurān as a Resident Alien,” Muslim World 99, no. 4...

You've invested all this time and effort into Zeba, you know you want to see her win. She deserves this, so final votes in now please. Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is it. After nearly 5000 entries and four rounds of competition, I am...