Seasons: Semiannual Journal of Zaytuna Institute: Vol. 2, No. 2

Zaytuna is pleased to announce that a special 120-page edition of the Spring-Summer 2005 Reflections issue of Seasons is now available for purchase for only . Many highly respected scholars have contributed to this issue, including Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir, Mostafa al-Badawi, Abdal Hakim Murad, Sylviane Diouf, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Mohamed Zakaria, and others. The articles and poems cover a wide range of relevant topics: spiritual concerns, politics, history, health, and more.

Seasons Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring - Summer 2005

Table of Contents:

• From West Africa to the Americas: Muslims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade - Sylviane A. Diouf



• Generous Tolerance in Islam and its Effects on the Life of a Muslim - Hamza Yusuf



• Gratitude (poem)- Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore



• From the Spirituality of Jihad to the Ideology of Jihadism - Reza Shah-Kazemi



• Islam, The Prophet Muhammad, and Blackness - Zaid Shakir



• Kim ki dost yolunda terk-i can eder (poem)- Eshrefoglu Rumi - (Trans: Abdal Hakim Murad)



• The Muhammadan Attributes - Mostafa al-Badawi



• Abraham?s Offence (poem)- Edwin Arnold



• The Natural Approach to Raising Healthy Children - Randall Neustaedter



• The Womb & The Tomb (poem) - Aaron Haroon Sellars



• Habib Ali al-Habashi?s Counsel to his Daughter Khaija - Mostafa al-Badawi



• An Ottoman Gift to America - M. Ugur Derman - (Trans: Mohamed Zakariya)



• Hymn: The Signs of God - Amherst D. Tyssen