Hello & Welcome

[Michelle]

Peace, Salaam, Sholom,
Welcome to the group, Towards Understanding The Muslim World. I sincerely hope to create some meaningful, and thought provoking discussions here. Everyone is welcome to join and participation is greatly encouraged. This group will NOT tolerate hateful, disrespectful speech from anyone, so please do not even bother joining the group if that is your aim. Peace. :)

[Halban]

Hello,
We are Halban Publishers, an independent, London-based publishing company, established in 1986.
We publish fiction, memoirs, history, biography, books on the Middle East and of Jewish interest.
We would like to recommend a book we recently published: The Reluctant Mullahby British-born Pakistani author Sagheer Afzal.
We would love to hear your responses to the novel, and, please take time to explore all our books and come back regularly for the latest reviews and upcoming events.
http://www.halbanpublishers.com/index...

[Sagheer]

Hello everyone My name is Sagheer Afzal I am the UK based author of ''THE RELUCTANT MULLAH' I look forward to getting to know all of you and have many stimulating chats

[Clare]

I recently found this great book: "The Red Line."

Here's the description: For sixteen years the red line sliced through the heart of Nora's city. The young doctor had grown up knowing that the virtual line cut Beirut into a Christian east side and a Muslim west side. She took it for granted that no one on either side in this civil war could cross the red line, the boundary of tradition, morality, and even identity. Then the Muslim patient appeared in the psychiatric ward who would convince her to do the unthinkable. Nora's passion for this man would draw her into enemy territory where she would have to weave words around her friends, relatives, and even a powerful and dangerous family, but one misstep and she would be caught in her own web. Nora is the grown-up child of war, and her story—which is based on a real one—is the story of Beirut itself, a city divided, a city driven to self-destruction in a frenzy of passion, a city that got addicted to the bitter taste war left on its tongue.

[Global]

Glad to be a member of the group... also i seek more understanding of the Islamic world...I have friends and family in various walks of life and I love culture, language and seek greater understandings...

[Global]

Great movie to watch is MOOZLUM... good movie

[Global]

Great series is the "I speak for myself"... it reviews on various muslim backgrounds from many perspectives...

[Sagheer]

Hi Donnica will definitely check it out

[Global]

I look forward to learning more about this way of life...

[Gwen]

Hello. I'm introducing a middle-grade book for your consideration that I am the author of: The Stone Lions. Thank you for allowing me to post here.

Here is the blurb from Amazon.

In the last throes of the 14th century, Islamic Spain is under pressure from Castile and Aragon. Ara, the twelve-year old daughter to the Sultan, finds herself in the center of a political intrigue when her eunuch tutor is magically transformed by the evil Wazir. Can a little girl save her friend and tutor with the help of a Sufi mathemagician.

Intertwined in a mystery of math, art and magic, Ara races to find the seven broken symmetries before time runs out? Will she succeed or will the Alhambra fall and with it all that she loves?

And will the stone lions awaken in time to help her?

This cross-cultural fantasy combines mystery and math to teach the geometry of symmetry.