Façades of Faith: Reading Church Architecture
Vasileios Marinis on Allen Doig Church histories are rarely concerned with ecclesiastical buildings. Those of us who peruse such books have certainly noticed
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Abrahamic Religions
Soloveitchik and St. Paul: A Commentary on the Hebrew Gospels
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s surprising work, Qol Qore, is a Hebrew commentary to the Gospels of Matthew,
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Beyond the Era of the Torah?
Nathaniel Berman on Moshe Halbertal Moshe Halbertal’s magisterial study appears to situate itself firmly among the decades-long challenges to Gershom Scholem’s most famous
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Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality
Ilan Benattar on Emily Benichou Gottreich The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh
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Bari Weiss Says Wear Your Kippah
Ari Blaff on Bari Weiss Fighting anti-Semitism rarely comes with fashion advice. However, The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss suggests otherwise in
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People of The Books: Qur’an and The Bible
Stephen Burge on Gabriel Reynolds Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume, and an intriguing
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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Theorizing the Qurʾanic Miracle – By Bruce Fudge
Bruce Fudge on al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Rummānī, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, Three Treatises on the Iʿjāz of the Qurʾān The first time I attempted to
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Making the Qurʾan Turkish: Translation and Power in the Ottoman Empire – By Micah Hughes
Micah Hughes on M. Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism What could be more unassuming and unexceptional than translation?
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