The Brass Crescent Awards

This year’s Brass Crescent Awards are officially underway, and we want to highlight a new category for nominations: Best Retired Blog:

BEST RETIRED BLOG: What blog or blogger, now retired or on extended hiatus, do still remember fondly and most wish were still with us? This is a way to honor those blogs of yesteryear that remain part of our history, and our memories, whether their archives remain or not.

Of course, sometimes old blogs remain online and sometimes they do not (though as Mr Moo points out using SunniSister as an example, you can usually find them on the Wayback Machine archive). It’s all the more imperative we highlight these now-silent blogs for posterity. In a sense, we are filling in the gaps of our collective heritage by taking the time to remember these blogs, many of them pioneers in making the Islamsphere what it is today.

Nominate your favorites now! And don’t forget to write a few words in the nomination box about what the blog meant to you and why you are nominating.