Selma Cook
{{Short description|Australian writer}}
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Selma A. Cook is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline.{{Cite web |url=http://www.islamonline.net/ |title=اسلام اون لاين IslamOnline |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230165249/https://islamonline.net/ |archive-date=30 December 2018 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
Life
Selma A. Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-10-21-islam-salafis_N.htm|title=Ultraconservative Islam -- Salafis -- on rise in Arab nations|last=Schemm|first=Paul|date=2008-10-21|work=USA Today|accessdate=2009-07-08}} She migrated to Egypt in 1993.{{cite web |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/li1.htm |title=Al-Ahram Weekly | Living | Internet shadows |accessdate=2009-06-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723224431/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/li1.htm |archivedate=23 July 2009 |df=dmy-all }}
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{{Cite web |url=http://www.missmoppy.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307185539/http://missmoppy.com/ |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} series (Islamic stories for children).
She wrote her first Islamic novel for teenagers called Buried Treasure, which is the first in the ‘Amirah Stevenson series'.[http://islamicartists.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/a-book-review-by-aiman-s-ahmed/]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
She writes articles and poetry on her Website The Islamic Garden.{{Cite web |url=http://www.islamicgarden.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 July 2022 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518194721/http://islamicgarden.com/ |url-status=dead }}
She works{{when|date=March 2024}} for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel.
Works
- [http://writers.oneummah.net/poems/461-a-gentle-nature-so-hard-to-find-poem?format=pdf "A Gentle Nature So Hard to Find", oneummah]
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.radianceweekly.com/76/1000/WHERE-IS-COMPENSATION-FOR-US-TERRORISM/2007-09-16/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/From-Isolation-to-Islam.html| title=From Isolation to Islam| journal=Radiance| volume=XLV| issue=10| date=2007-09-16| access-date=6 July 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430182915/http://www.radianceweekly.com/76/1000/WHERE-IS-COMPENSATION-FOR-US-TERRORISM/2007-09-16/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/From-Isolation-to-Islam.html| archive-date=30 April 2009| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}
- {{cite book| title=Divine Triumph: Explanatory Notes on the Book of Tawheed | author=Abdur-Rahman ibn Hasan Al Ash-Sheikh, Selma Cook | publisher=Dar Al-Manarah| year=2001| isbn=978-977-6005-18-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=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 | author=Fatḥī Yakan, Nawawī, Muḥammad Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ, Selma Cook | publisher=Dar Al-Manarah| year=2007| isbn=978-977-6005-38-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=Allah: The Lord of Glory, Honor, and Majesty | publisher=Dar Al-Salam| year=2003 | isbn=978-977-342-136-6 |author1=Saʻīd Ḥawwá |author2=ʻIzzat Abū Zaīd |author3=Selma Cook }}
=Edited=
- {{cite book| title=The Characteristics of Prophet Muhammad (Shamâ´il al-MuHammadiyyah)| author=Imam At-Tirmidhi| others=Translator Bahaa Addiin Ibrahim Ahmed Shalaby| editor=Selma Cook| publisher=Dar Al-Manarah }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Muslim Voices Poetry Anthology 2006| publisher=lulu| editor=Pamela Taylor }}
References
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Category:21st-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian non-fiction writers
Category:Australian women novelists
Category:Australian women poets
Category:21st-century Australian women writers