Selma A. Cook is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline.[1]

Life

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Selma A. Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia.[2] She migrated to Egypt in 1993.[3]

She has written a book about her journey to Islam called The Miracles of My Life, an Islamic poetry book called The Light of Submission, as well as the Miss Moppy[4] series (Islamic stories for children).

She wrote her first Islamic novel for teenagers called Buried Treasure, which is the first in the ‘Amirah Stevenson series'.[5] She writes articles and poetry on her Website The Islamic Garden.[6]

She works[when?] for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel.[2]

Works

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  • "A Gentle Nature So Hard to Find", oneummah
  • "From Isolation to Islam". Radiance. XLV (10). 16 September 2007. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
  • Abdur-Rahman ibn Hasan Al Ash-Sheikh, Selma Cook (2001). Divine Triumph: Explanatory Notes on the Book of Tawheed. Dar Al-Manarah. ISBN 978-977-6005-18-1.
  • Fatḥī Yakan, Nawawī, Muḥammad Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ, Selma Cook (2007). What Dies it Mean to be a Muslim?: With a Selection of Authentic Qudsî (sacred) Hadîths, with An-Nawawî's Forty Hadiths = Mādhā Yaʻnī Intimāʼī Lil-Islām? : Maʻa Hadīyat Mukhtārāt Min ṣaḥīḥ Al-Aḥādīth Al-Qudsīyah, Maʻa Al-Arbaʻīn Al-Nawawīyah. Dar Al-Manarah. ISBN 978-977-6005-38-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Saʻīd Ḥawwá; ʻIzzat Abū Zaīd; Selma Cook (2003). Allah: The Lord of Glory, Honor, and Majesty. Dar Al-Salam. ISBN 978-977-342-136-6.

Edited

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  • Imam At-Tirmidhi. Selma Cook (ed.). The Characteristics of Prophet Muhammad (Shamâ´il al-MuHammadiyyah). Translator Bahaa Addiin Ibrahim Ahmed Shalaby. Dar Al-Manarah.

Anthologies

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  • Pamela Taylor (ed.). Muslim Voices Poetry Anthology 2006. lulu.

References

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  1. ^ "اسلام اون لاين IslamOnline". Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b Schemm, Paul (21 October 2008). "Ultraconservative Islam -- Salafis -- on rise in Arab nations". USA Today. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Al-Ahram Weekly | Living | Internet shadows". Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ [1][permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)