The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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medieval Islam
A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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