Welcome to Indigo Jo's website
Last updated: 21st March 2004
This website belongs to Yusuf Smith, also known as Matthew J Smith. The
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This website has moved to http://www.blogistan.co.uk/yusuf/". This page will remain available, but will not be updated unless Blogistan closes.
Contents
Religious links
Please note: a link from this site absolutely does not constitute an
endorsement of everything on it, unless indicated.
- Sunni Path - Promising to be a
valuable new resource containing authentic Islamic knowledge.
- Mas'ud Khan's website
- The foremost resource on traditional Islam.
- Iqra (Toronto) -
Excellent information on Sufism and the famous Sufis of Yemen
- Q-News - Britain's
leading Muslim magazine.
- Dar al-Mustafa
- The renowned Muslim religious college in Tareem, Hadramaut, Yemen.
Also contains contact details for the women's college, Dar al-Zahra.
- European Institute for Human
Sciences - a college for imams in Llanybydder, SW Wales.
- Guidance Media
- from Khalil of the Haba'ib forum, page dedicated to the Haba'ib.
- LightStudy -
Questions and Answers with Shaikh Muhammad al-Ya'qoubi, and light
study programmes in the UK
- Latin American Da'wah
Association - working for da'wah in the US and Latin America
- Amal Press - Ahlus-Sunnah
publishers, the people behind The Broken Chain and Shattered
Illusions.
- The
Zawiya in Cape Town, home of Shaikh Siraj Hendricks
- Modern
Muslima - Articles by Sara Umm Zaid and her blog (and more articles
here, but I don't
recommend the rest of the site)
- Islam - the Modern
Religion - Fareena Alam's islamic page
- Yahoo! groups, providing answers according to all four Sunni
schools of thought:
Hanafi ...
Maliki ...
Shafi'i
- Articles by Musa Furber
on Hanbali fiqh, taken from Hanbali Yahoo forum which has closed
- Hanbali Text Society - promoting true Hanbalism, dissociating it from sects like the Wahhabis
- Alan (Abdul-Haqq) Godlas's site
- a general page of links to various Sufi (and some quasi-Sufi) organisations.Â
Also links to articles on the 9/11 incidents.
- Web site about Abdul-Fattah Abu
Ghudda, the famous Syrian scholar of Islam
- The
Shariah: An Introduction, by Faraz Rabbani, on the BBC's
homepage!
- Huma's MamaList
of Islamic Links
- Ever wondered who this "Shaikh" Abdul-Hadi Palazzi is? Here's the answer!
- And while we're on the subject of impostors, here's the Anti-Ahmadiyya
Movement.
- Islamic Awareness
- page of refutations of Christian polemics against Islam
- Karimia Institute - an institution of Islamic learning in Nottingham, England.
Sites for Converts to Islam
The 419 Scam - Don't fall for the
"Help a Fellow Muslim" line!! A warning to Muslims. (With information on
other scams.)
The War On Iraq, and related issues
Muslim Marriage Links
- MuslimMatch - UK, free
ad, free chat, charges for mail, notifies when your ad is viewed
- Muslim Marriage
Consultants - Canada, free ads, free mail exc. for contact details
- 1st Place Muslim
Matrimonials - no location given, free ad, free indication of
interest, charges for mail
- Muslim Marriage Link -
US or Canada (not sure), free ad, charges for mail
- MuslimIntro - UK,
free ad, free email exc. for contact details
- Islam.tc Matrimonials -
South Africa, completely free, displays email addresses (so vulnerable to
spammers and scammers), four madhhabs only, no photos
- PureNikah - UK,
free, no photos; formerly KismatLinx, now Unix compatible, no longer displays
email addresses
- Muslim Marriage
Junction - US, free ads, charges for any contact
- Zawaj.com Matrimonials -
US, free ads, charges for contact
Computer related links
- SuSE, who make
Europe's leading (GNU/) Linux distribution. (I'm using this one myself.)
- MandrakeSoft - another leading
European Linux distro. (Don't get 9.2 - it's got lots of bugs.)
- Fedora Project - the new name for Red Hat Linux.
- Fedora.us - original Fedora homepage; packages for Red Hat Linux and Fedora.
- Libranet - an important
industrial-strength Debian-based distro from Canada. (My current desktop distro)
- Slackware - one of the
oldest and most stable Linux distros.
- Vector Linux - a
rather more user-friendly Slackware derivative.
- DistroWatch - General
website about GNU/Linux distributions.
- FreeBSD - an important
alternative Free OS to Linux.
- GNU, the campaign for
Free Software and authors of Emacs, BASH and other Unix cornerstones.
- usr local bin - A
better GNOME for SuSE. (Don't even look at Ximian if you've got SuSE 9.)
- Sylpheed - this is a
GTK-based mail reader from Japan. This is the best mailer I've used and it's
about time I gave it a plug. (Note: if you use SuSE, download it from their
site. Don't use the version with the OS - it's the unstable 'Claws' version.)
- OSNews - news and discussion
about OS issues.
- NewsForge - discussion
forum about open source (ie. 'free') software.
- Slashdot - ditto.
- Window Managers for
Unix and Linux
- Linux Format -
the UK's leading magazine on Linux
- Linux User &
Developer - another major UK Linux magazine
- Groklaw - IT law
site, with particular focus on the SCO lawsuit issue
- SCO Lawsuit
resources by Eric S. Raymond
- Mindlube which
does a great OSX build of Emacs (real Aqua! not X11!)
Friends, Journalists and other interesting links
Downloads have been suspended for a while
Contacting me:
If you can't see that, my email address is indigojo underscore uk at yahoo dot co dot uk.
This website was built mostly on a Pentium 3 PC running various distributions of
Linux. The editor used was GNU
Emacs, usually the version supplied by SuSE. More recent
updates were done on Mindlube's and Fink's GNU Emacs, on an eMac running OSX 10.3.
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