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August 2020

August 06, 2020

Revision 3.4 “Continuing with Muhammad at Mecca”

For this belief [in a physical resurrection] and others, the doubters made fun...

August 05, 2020

Revision 3.3 “The Meccan Chapters of the Qur’an”

Muslims and Western scholars agree upon a division of the suras or chapters...

August 03, 2020

Revision 3.1 “Mecca and the Quraysh”

On 23 September 1855, Elder George A. Smith of the Council of the...

August 02, 2020

Revision 2.16 “The Blessings of Ishmael”

There were other connections between Arabian paganism and the religion of the biblical...

August 01, 2020

Revision 2.15 “Arabia on the Eve of Islam”

This is a vitally important point to understand: The vast majority of...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

Revision 2.1 “The Arabs before Islam”

The first question that comes up when we begin to discuss “the Arabs”...

July 03, 2020

Middle Eastern Book Revision 1.1

I'm going to resume rewriting and expanding a book here. I begin with...

July 02, 2020

The apparent reason for my disinvitation from that Australian school many years ago

In case you don't already have sufficient reason to suspect that the current...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Liberal Islam and Illiberal Islam

I share, here, a couple of passages that I marked during my reading...

June 22, 2020

Is there any place at all in the West for Islam?

A passage in Graham E. Fuller, A World Without Islam (New York, Boston,...

June 20, 2020

An oppressive theocracy

I share a provocative passage that I've extracted for my notes from Graham...

June 19, 2020

My sorry career as a religious bigot

I have an anonymous critic -- I call him my Malevolent Stalker --...

June 18, 2020

“Finding the Roots of Religion in Saudi Arabia” (and Its Ambiguous Status in the West)

My latest column for the Deseret News has appeared: "Finding the roots...

June 12, 2020

The Decline of the East

I have, once or twice, used Daniel W. Brown, A New Introduction to...

June 11, 2020

Enter the age of Marshall Hodgson’s “Gunpowder Empires”

At least once, and perhaps twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New...

June 10, 2020

Religious Minorities and Islam

Here's another passage that I marked in Graham E. Fuller, A World Without...

June 09, 2020

Separation of “church and state” in Islamic history

Graham E. Fuller, A World Without Islam (New York, Boston, and London: Little,...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Polling on shari‘a

A few passages extracted for my notes from John L. Esposito and Dalia...

May 28, 2020

Napoleon the Muslim

A perfectly astounding passage from Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York: Bantam...

May 27, 2020

Notes on racial and religious tolerance in early Islam

I want to complete some of the thoughts that I shared last night...

May 27, 2020

The early Arab conquests and forced conversions

I share a couple of passages from Graham E. Fuller, A World Without...

May 21, 2020

“Who founded Hinduism?” and other matters

My latest bi-weekly column for the Salt Lake City Deseret News has now appeared:...

May 17, 2020

Near-Death Experiences among Muslims?

Two articles worth noting: Michael Nahm and Joachim Nicolay, "Essential Features of...

May 11, 2020

Islam, Love, and Violence

Here a few passages that I've drawn from John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed,...

May 08, 2020

Some notes on Wahhābism

At least once, and perhaps twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New...

May 05, 2020

A Note of Appreciation

Last week, we officially closed out the weirdest BYU semester with which I've...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

From my reading: “Arab Voices”

James Zogby is a very prominent figure in the Democratic Party, an Arab-American...

April 28, 2020

The beginning of modernity in the Middle East

Once or twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New Introduction to Islam,...

April 25, 2020

A first pass at Sayyid Qutb

One of the principal architects of modern Islamic "fundamentalism" and, therefore, derivatively, of...

April 23, 2020

A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (3)

I share some further notes from Margaret Smith, Muslim Women Mystics: The Life and...