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ArRum With a Modern View.(Islamic club)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International

| December 17, 2001 | Beith, Malcolm | COPYRIGHT 2001 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The crowd at the bar might belong to any of London's new-wave nightspots. But this is ArRum, an Islamic club that recently opened in London's hip Clerkenwell district. The name is taken from a verse in the Quran that promotes diversity. Instead of merely giving its visitors (who are mostly Muslim) an escape from the rat race, ArRum seeks to provide a place "where Muslims can bring their non-Muslim friends to give them an informal and less insular insight into how Muslims live their daily lives," says Luqman Ali, co-founder of British Muslim theater company Khayaal and frequent ArRum visitor.

A visit to ArRum shows how Islamic culture (or lifestyle) can coexist with a modern, Western youth ...

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