Some Health Guidelines for Ramadan

From Sunnipath
Answered by Dr. Farouk Haffajee

Some Health Guidelines for Ramadhan

This article provides useful advice on how to avoid some common problems encountered in Ramadhan. If followed, it would enable one to fast comfortably and enjoy fully the spiritual benefits of Ramadhan.
During the holy month of Ramadhan, our diet should not differ very much from our [...]

Take This Job: Meat Man, A Halal Food Shop

From dragonfire

by Abdul Razaaq Haj, as told to Stasia DeMarco in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Halal food means the animals have to be slaughtered by a Muslim in the name of Allah. Any Muslim over 15 years old can do it. Halal also means you can eat the animals with the Lord’s permission. You [...]

Cooking with the Caliphs

From Saudi Aramco Magazine
Written by Charles Perry
A little over a thousand years ago, an Arab scribe wrote a book he titled Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Recipes). It was a collection of recipes from the court of ninth-century Baghdad, for the scribe’s unnamed patron—probably Saif al-Dawlah Al-Hamdani, the culture-minded prince of 10th-century Aleppo—had specifically asked [...]