Pagan Arabs, Arabian Prophecy, and Monotheism
Aziz Al-Azmeh reviews Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur’an. The book under review assembles articles on the Qur’an, the religious
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Islam and the Art of the Cross
Evan Kuehn reviews Navid Kermani Art and religion face each other. Their gaze can offer unity beyond the oppositional pairs that define our
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Islam, Sex, and Secularism
Aaron Stauffer on Scott’s Sex and Secularism In 1903 the black socialist preacher, Rev. George Washington Woodbey wrote his first socialist pamphlet, “What to
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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Subversive Islam
Robert W. Hefner on Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking Few fields of social inquiry have undergone as profound and recurring a series of
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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful
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Islam and Black Emancipation
Robert Dannin reviews Patrick D. Bowen’s The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Twenty-five years ago I undertook similar research, and I felt like
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Reimagining Christian Identity in an Islamic World
Joshua Mugler Reviews Peter Schadler’s John of Damascus and Islam Over the past few years, the Christians of the Middle East and their relationship
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Is Islamist violence any worse?
On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street, right at
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Imagining Pakistan: Religion at the Origins of Nationalism
Sohaib I. Khan on Venkat Dhulipala’s Creating a New Medina Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject
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