Assalamu Aleikum!
I'm back at work. The 2 day holiday is over and I've returned to a strangely quiet school. Exam season is upon us and the pupils are only coming in for their exams and then going home again. It means that the teachers are all busy with administering the exams, marking the exams or sorting papers. I guess it gives us all the chance to prepare for semester 2 when a lot of hard work will have to happen.
One of the great things about UAE is that with English being so widely spoken there are lots of bookshops selling English books, magazines etc. If you then add to the fact that it's a Muslim country you get loads of books about Islam in English. Suits me fine! I picked up a book translated from the Arabic into English by Ibn Jubayr. I had never heard of him but it appears he was a bit of an Ibn Battuta i.e. traveller. His account tells of his travel on Hajj in 1183 and visiting Egypt, Sicily, Baghdad etc. I'm looking forward to enjoying his accounts of Muslims of that era. One of the things that struck me when reading Ibn Battuta a few years ago was how each Muslim community had kept to the fundamentals of iman but had also developed a separate culture influenced by local surroundings.
The sun is still shining
Masalamah
Yahya
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