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Contents 1 Article alerts 2 Genie/Djinn/Jinn 3 Vaccination requirements for Hajj/Umrah 4 WikiIslam 5 Moved from project page 6 Edit war at Quilliam Foundation 7 List of religious organizations 8 new article 9 Major cleanup needed at Punishment of the Grave 10 Possible Wikipedia fork 11 Need an Arabic translation for Kaaba image 12 AfD nomination of Jeffrey Lang 13 Khizer

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[edit] Genie/Djinn/Jinn

I was looking for information on Jinn on WP, and dismayed to find we only have the article Genie which is a mixture of crappy Orientalism about Disney movies and vague references to Solomon. In addition to needing clean-up (which I'll try to do myself as I learn more), I requested that the page be moved to Djinn or Jinn - the request has failed in the past because Western editors shout "No, genies are more famous, keep the article about genies!" - but I think they would not be so quick to delete the article on Saint Nicholas and replace it with Santa Claus, of course.

I would appreciate support, criticism and opinions at Talk:Genie#Move over the next few days. Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 15:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Vaccination requirements for Hajj/Umrah

No mention at Hajj/Umrah/Ihram of longstanding requirement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Meningitis ACWY vaccination with a valid certificate at least 10 days prior to travelling. This year additional requirements, according to London Embassy website, for seasonal flu vaccination with certificate at least 14 days prior, and once H1N1 swine flu vaccinations become generaly available (at least a few weeks if not 1-2 months yet in the UK) then this too (although not specified is whether will need just one or a full course of two immunisations 3 weeks apart - i.e. possibly starting at least 35 days prior to travelling). See Health requirements which must be complied with by incoming travellers for Umrah and Hajj during the season of 1430 Hijr

In addition the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs states: "Experts advise prospective pilgrims for Hajj and Umrah that the elderly and persons with chronic diseases, children and pregnant women should postpone the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages this year for their own safety".

I appreciate Hajj article is concerned with the religious aspects, rather than the secular health requirements of Saudi Arabia as a country issuing 'Hajj Visa', so I have no idea where such information is best placed. David Ruben ^Talk 21:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

My guess would be the Tourism in Saudi Arabia article, because that seems to be the most directly relevant to the topic and the Hajj pilgrimage is a form of religious pilgrimage/tourism. Unfortunately, I'm not really sure if there's anywhere else that such information would easily fit in. John Carter (talk) 21:57, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WikiIslam

While I was monitoring the new pages, I came across WikiIslam. I've made some fixes to it, but this Islam-related articles are outside of my area of editing, so I thought I would raise it here in case anyone else wanted to take a look. Singularity42 (talk) 18:16, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from project page

Hi, I dont know how this works but there is an important page related to Islam and Christianity that not neutral to the favour of Christianity. They misquote Qur'an and put ideas that are not part of Islam or are misleading. Here is one of the pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_Islam

I suggest you look at other pages like these that are related to this page like: Islam and Judaism and others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.57.85.149 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 12 October 2009

[edit] Edit war at Quilliam Foundation

Can someone resolve an edit war that appears to accuring on Quilliam Foundation Dwanyewest (talk) 20:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] List of religious organizations

Hi. The article List of religious organizations is in need of serious help. It was in an abandoned state and discussed for deletion, however I feel it has strong potential to become a useful list. But it needs lots of help and collaboration. Is someone of you interested? --Cyclopia^talk 23:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] new article

Al-Azhar Mosque. nableezy - 23:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Major cleanup needed at Punishment of the Grave

I noticed this article when I was cleaning up Category:Islam. I trimmed the huge number of categories down, but noted the article is quite confusing. I know a decent amount about Islam, but still found the article baffling. At the very minimum, the intro needs to be re-written, and the huge sections of extreme detail about Sunnah need to be trimmed down: Punishment of the Grave. MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Wikipedia fork

I've come across something peculiar that I thought may be of interest to WP:ISLAM participants. A couple of weeks ago, I had noted some problems with the Aissawa article at Talk:Aissawa. Having dug a little deeper, I found a Global Encyclopaedia of Islamic Mystics and Mysticism at Google Books. It has an entry on "Aissawa" that is nearly identical to an older edit of the Wikipedia article on the subject. Note that the book was published this year, while the Wikipedia edit occurred in 2007. I scrolled down further in the Google Book and found that the book's entry on "Manzil" is also quite similar to Wikipedia's Manzil. However, not everything in the book appears in Wikipedia, so it isn't simply a copy. I am not sure what is going on with that particular book, but I thought I should make note of this. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:26, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually, there is a 2007 edition of the book that contains the exact same text, compare this with the edits made in 2007, here. The current article is an unambiguous copyright violation. nableezy - 22:01, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I am inclined to believe the WP article is a copyvio. However, the book link you gave looks like the same edition I found: on page "iv" it says Copyright 2009 ([1]). At the same time, the Google Overview page says 2007 ([2]). If it is from 2007, are there possibly older versions of the book? The "Manzil" Wikipedia edit is from 2006. Thanks again, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Just saw that too, I see a "first edition, 2009" in the book, so Im not sure anymore. I'll see what I can find though. nableezy - 22:16, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

A worldcat search on the isbn returns two results, Global encyclopaedia of Islamic mystics and mysticism in 2009 and Global encyclopaedia of education in 2007. While the google book summary says it is the Global encyclopaedia of education, the actual preview is for Global encyclopaedia of Islamic mystics and mysticism, for which they have description pages for volumes 1 and 2 under different ISBNs. I have no idea at this point what is going on. nableezy - 22:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

I just checked the publisher's website. I found a table of contents (link) for Global Encyclopaedia of Education (2007), with no mention of "Aissawa". -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Combined with the TOC for the 2009 book matching what is actually shown I think that at least what is shown in google books is from 2009. Sorry for the confusion. nableezy - 23:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

No problem, Google and/or the publisher just needs to straighten out the book listing. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to find the whole thing peculiar. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Need an Arabic translation for Kaaba image

Can anyone translate the caption on this photo and add it to the image description? Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 21:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Jeffrey Lang

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[edit] Khizer

Please take a look at Khizer. It's so poorly written and possibly mis-titled that I PROposed it for Deletion. I'm really hoping someone familiar with the topic can fix it up and remove the dated prod tag and the other cleanup tags. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 21:39, 25 November 2009 (UTC)