Selma Cook

Selma Cook (born 1961) is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline.[1]

Life

She 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 has recently published 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 for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel.[2]

Selma Cook said:

When you are filled with stress and uncertainty, black and white is very good, it's very easy to manage....They want to make sure everything is authentic.[2]

Works

  • "A Gentle Nature So Hard to Find", oneummah
  • "From Isolation to Islam". Radiance. XLV (10). 2007-09-16.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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

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

References

  1. ↑ http://www.islamonline.net
  2. 1 2 3 Schemm, Paul (2008-10-21). "Ultraconservative Islam -- Salafis -- on rise in Arab nations". USA Today. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  4. ↑ http://www.missmoppy.com
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ http://www.islamicgarden.com
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