Obituaries

12 Traits that Made Junaid Jamshed an Incredible Muslim Artist

This is about an amazing Muslim woman I hardly knew. She was born 63 years ago in Pakistan in the same neighborhood where Malala Yusufzai was born. Today, hundreds of people showed up for her funeral prayers on less than a day’s notice.

I wish Sr. Aminah Assilmi had survived that accident the Friday morning of her death as she did the one in Chicago. But I can see her smiling, still full of plans, because whenever I met her, she had some fantastic ideas about what needed to be done for Islam in America.

Aminah Assilmi (nee Janice Huff, 1945-March 5, 2010) was an American Muslim activist, Emmy-award winning broadcaster, speaker and director of the International Union of Muslim Women. She was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in 2009.

"Why are there no women speakers?" This is how I came to know her, straight, forceful, full of haya, but not shy when it came to speaking the truth. Polite but firm. May God bless her with the best place in Jannah.

Death of a giant of Islamic scholarship. Dr. Hamidullah has done his job, Alhamdu lillah. Let's do ours. We need Muslim writers and scholars who are willing to pick up where Dr. Hamidullah has left.

Taha Ghayyur's reflections on the life and work of a  performing artist of remarkable calibre in Canada, Br. Dale (Jamaluddin) Marcell, who embraced Islam about 3 years before his death.