Muslim bloggers & Islamic blogs from All Over the World

The Muslim blogosphere has grown rapidly in recent years. Muslims living in monarchies who couldn't raise their voice on political & social issues, have found blogs as a potent medium to share their thoughts & feelings. In Europe and America, scores of bloggers have emerged. Many of them are original thinkers and great writers. Some of the selected blogs that make an impact and are regularly updated are as follows:



Mind, Body and Soul: Tariq Nelson

Blogger Indonesia: A Fatih Syuhud

Izzy Mo

Raising Yousuf: A mother from Gaza (Palestine)

Shabana Mir's Koonj

Raza Rumi's Jehan-e-Rumi

Awab Alvi's Teeth Maestro

All Things Pakistan (ATP) Pakistaniat

Umm Yasmin's Dervish

Maliha's Lightness of Being

Islamosphere

Peaceful Muslimah

Aunt Najma's A Star from Mosul

The Angry Arab

War on Al-Islam

Muslim Woman

Mere Islam

A Muslim Thinktank

A Muslim Wife

Chapati Mystery

Nzingha's Soapbox

Sketched Soul

Sweep the Sunshine

Confessions of a Sore Thumb

Laila Lalami
Group Blogs

Austrolabe

AltMuslim

IndianMuslims.in


For latest stories from Islamic world and links also see:

Ummah Watch

Ijtema


And yours' truly (An Indian Muslim) blogs as Indscribe

(This is not a comprehensive list or directory. Once into this world you can yourself sail find hundreds of interesting Islamic weblogs through blogrolls and links. Just see the number of Muslimahs (Muslim women) who are blogging. The list above probably has more Muslim women than Men.) There are hundreds of Muslim bloggers across the globe and it is impossible to feature them all. Above are a few of Muslim bloggers from Middle-East (Arab world), Asia, Australia, America, Europe and Africa(!).

List of Muslim Bloggers from India

Indian Muslim Blogosphere

I have tried to compile a list of Muslim bloggers of India. The aim is that people should know what Muslims feel and think. Blogs are a great medium to present Indian Muslims' voice that often doesn't reach others.

This list was made when there were barely a couple of Muslim bloggers from India and there was a psychological pressure that Muslims don't speak up on various issues. So the aim of the list was to show that Muslims of India are no monolithic, they are as diverse as other Indians, they are speaking up, there are lots of liberals among them, they have their own dreams, there are blogs about poetry, personal interests, women issues, religion, society and all other topics under the sun.

Serendipity (Sharique)
Doubt Engine
Syed Akbar

Ye Manzilein (Shahid A Sayed)

Fly you Fools (Saad Akhtar)

साझा सरोकार Saajha-Sarokar [Hindi blog by Shahroz]

Dental Blogging

Jalpari [Almas Shamim]

Shadkam

Life is a gift (Ishqia)

Private Opinion (Mohib)
Take a Walk (Asif)
Dream Ink (Zafar Anjum)
Fragmented Impressions (Sadia Raval)

Oroosa's Orbit (Uroosa Subuhi)

Known Turf (Annie Zaidi)
Leaves of Life (Riyaz)
Most things in life...(Noman)

Reflections

Splash of life (Ashraf)
Kaleidoscope (Nabeela)

See the world through my eyes (Shiraz)

Yusuf Speaks (Yusuf)

Soaring Spirit & As if I care (Zarine)
Muslim Mama (Seems to have quit blogging)

Biriyani (Faiza)

Naghma-e-Bulbul (Pasheman)

Ideastic (Nazim)
UrdudaaN (Blog in Urdu script)
Being Muslim in America (SS)

Imaginathon (Suhail Kazi)
Rushed Thoughts (Javed
Bushra's Blog
Abdusalam Al-Hindi

Muzlamic Celebration (Saif)
My Way (Toufeeq)
Danesh's psyche (Danesh)
Graffiti of Existence (Karim)
Dastangoi (Danish Husain)

Random Numbers (Faiz Azim)
Etc and Etc (Idayathullah)
Soul Splinters (Fareen)
Urdu ke Naam (Group Blog)

Stray Thoughts (Manzoor Khan)

Stale Wine (Sameer Ahmed)
Nothing Else Matters (Ghulam Husain)
Alltough Thoughts (Altaf)
The Lion is Roaring (Asad)
Pushing Pixels (Adel Anwar)

Daily Buzz (Subhan)
Living Tradition (AJ Suhail)
The Melting Pot of Ice (Alfi)

Zeeshan's photoblog
Method Madness (Noor Ayesha)
Being Saif Ali (Saif Ali)
Livelight (Firoz)

Mostly about movies (Shahnaz)

Tanveer's Blog
City Bytes (Zainab)
Aligarhnama (Sharjeel)
Blog or Block (Suhail Kassim)
Hyderabad on the Web (Qais)

Mixedup Muggle Musings (Tahseen)
Everything under the Sun (history_lover)
Hidayath Ansari
Saleem India (Saleem)
Renditions (Moid)
Ingredients of Life (Group Blog)

Mind over Matter (El Savior)

Though I couldn't find many Muslims from India who are very serious bloggers but the number seems growing. The interaction with Indian Muslims on blogosphere may help in removing the stereotypes of the community and the often negative portrayal.

Some of the above mentioned bloggers are living abroad. Besides, I was unsure about nationality of some bloggers or their identity. If there are any mistakes in this list, do tell me, I will correct that immediately.

Like rest of the Indians, Muslims of this country also come from all sections, there are female bloggers, software professionals, students, serious thinkers, happy-go-lucky guys, those interested in movies, cricket and poetry et al. I have found 100-0dd bloggers but many are redundant, some are topic-specific and I wish to present a vibrant Indian Muslim blogging community. So here I am posting only 50-odd blogs.

It took me quite a lot of time to search the IMBs and please don't take it as a ranking, it is just a compilation. Also the list has some female bloggers amongst Muslims like Sadia, Zahera, Faiza, El Savior, Nabeela, Tahseen, Zainab, Zarine and Fareen. That's far less than in other countries but surely we we will see more of them in near future. Mostly the blogs that have original thought and writing have been chosen. Some journalists also have blogs but they post their articles on them and I have avoided them. I request all not to see this exercise with any communal angle. Thanks :)

And my blog you are already on: Indscribe's Mindspeak, Best Urdu Ghazals & Nazms and Urdu India.