Author Archives for Besim Bruncaj

Announcing a 3-Week Online Hajj Course

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on November 12th, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
SunniPath is honored to announce that Shaykh Sohail Hanif will be teaching a 3-Week Online Hajj Course titled “Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime.” This year we will be offering group viewing discounts for Hajj groups.
View the announcement here:
http://www.sunnipath.com/Outreach/2007-Fall/071106-HajjCourse.html.
If you know of anyone going to a Hajj click here to send them information [...]

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on June 26th, 2007

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: “the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically
think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge”.
“Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the
bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly
overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores
put them in the 12th percentile, [...]

Email Cleanup

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 29th, 2007

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
As salaamu ‘alaykum
The latest project to launch is our new email management system. For our students and visitors the most relevant part of this is that you can now subscribe and unsubscribe from our email announcement list with ease:
Subscribe to SunniPath’s Emails
Unsubscribe from SunniPath’s Email list.
Insha’Allah we’ll make sure to include the [...]

New SunniPath Homepage Design

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 25th, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
Alhamdulillah, after some hard work, several iterations, and plenty of tea we are excited to announce (in case you missed it yesterday) the new SunniPath homepage. Here are some of the new features and some of the thinking behind it all:

Aesthetics -

As we mentioned in the New Course Catalog System post we are [...]

Live Event this Sunday with Shaykh Faraz

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 25th, 2007

We’re excited to announce our second Summer 2007 CourseLens event this weekend, from our new Beliefs course Tahawi’s Manual Explained taught by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani titled “The Rank and Rights of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him”. There’s no pre-registration required, just come this Sunday the 27th at 3pm GMT (11am EST, 8am [...]

Muslim Americans: Middle Class & Mostly Mainstream

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 23rd, 2007

The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans
finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and
moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims
and Westerners around the world.

SunniPath Bookstore is Back Up

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 22nd, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
Alhamdulillah, SunniPath’s Online Islamic Bookstore is back up. We apologize for the delay in putting it up. We still have the library section left to get back up. Insha’Allah we hope everything will be up and running better than before.
Jazakum Allahu khayrun for your patience.

Today’s Event Has Been Postponed

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 13th, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
Unfortunately we have to reschedule today’s live event with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani until another day due to the civil unrest in Karachi, where Shaykh Faraz is currently studying. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Insha’Allah we will keep you updated with the new date.
For the time being we have the [...]

New Catalog System

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on May 12th, 2007

بسم االه الرحمن الرحيم
As salaamu ‘alaykum
As sister Saudah mentioned in her post on our server issues, much of our site outside of the Answers service and the academy courses were completely down. Unfortunately, this happened as we were working to get a new catalog and registration system up in time for the Summer 2007 registration [...]

Five Most Important Leadership Traits

Posted by Besim Bruncaj on April 4th, 2007

The five leadership traits are to be:

Honest
Forward-Looking
Competent
Inspiring
Intelligent

May Allah bless our communities and organizations with leaders that have perfected these and with followers that will follow them, ameen.