Selma Cook

Selma A. Cook is managing editor of the Youth Section and Volunteer Youth Resource Network at IslamOnline.^[1]

Life

Selma A. Cook 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 wrote 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^[when?] for Hoda, a Cairo-based satellite channel.^[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.{{cite book}}: 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.