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). 16 September 2007. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
- 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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- 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
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Schemm, Paul (21 October 2008). "Ultraconservative Islam -- Salafis -- on rise in Arab nations". USA Today. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.islamicgarden.com