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CONTENTS 32 38
VOL.39 NO.4 JULY/AUGUST 2010
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COVER STORY:
What Makes Chicago Click for Muslims? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Harnessing the Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 A City of Big Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 CIOGC Rich History Promising Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ever Vibrant: Imam WD Mohammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
ISLAM IN AMERICA You Cannot Cheat Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 China - A Multi-Faith Look Into China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 With Iman and Collective Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Halal and American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE Al-Andalus: Locked in Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SPIRIT FOOD FOR THE
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DEPARTMENTS Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ISNA Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 14 National News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Food for the Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Matrimonials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
THE MUSLIM WORLD Kashmir: Kashmiris Own their Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Thailand: Unsettled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
TRIBUTES Dawud Tauhidi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Mujahid Muhammadi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 COVER: Chicago skyline aerial photograph by Trey Ratcliff, cc-by-sa-2.0.
47th ISNA Convention Illustration by Peter Gould, creativecubed. (TOP MIDDLE) PHOTOGRAPH BY FADHIRUL FITRI JAMSARI; CC-BY-SA-2.0; (TOP RIGHT) PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF AARON GOODMAN
DESIGN & LAYOUT BY: Omar El-Haddad, DesignWorks Copyeditor: Jay Willoughby The views expressed in Islamic Horizons are not necessarily the views of its editors nor of the Islamic Society of North America. Islamic Horizons does not accept unsolicitated articles or submissions. All references to the Qur'an made are from The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Amana, Brentwood, MD.