Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Latter-day Saint

Islam

Select a Category Uncategorized

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 March 2014 August 2013 February 2012

August 2018

August 26, 2018

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

Farid al-Din Attar, who died in the early thirteenth century, is one of...

August 18, 2018

Seek, first, to understand

Often called "The Prayer of St. Francis," it almost certainly didn't originate with...

August 17, 2018

A Pleasant Memory and the Horror in New Mexico

Many, many years ago -- on 6 November 1996 -- back long before...

August 17, 2018

“What good are prophetic voices that maintain total silence on the most pressing moral matters of our time?”

Here's an item that I posted on this blog back in December 2014...

August 16, 2018

“The Metaphysics of ‘The Healing'”

Another of the books that appeared in Brigham Young University's Islamic Translation Series...

August 12, 2018

A Response to Margaret Barker (Part One)

From a BYU panel on which I appeared with the British biblical scholar...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

“Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.”

I return, for a moment, to an inspection of the quotations (and purported...

April 17, 2018

A favorite story, and some wise words, from early Islamic history

Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, died unexpectedly and rather suddenly in 632 A.D.,...

April 15, 2018

An anti-Islamic use of Qur’an 9:30

A few days ago, one of those upset by my article on Islam...

April 14, 2018

A brief look at an Islamophobic allegation

A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who, like...

April 13, 2018

Some Notes on English Translations of the Qur’an (Part 6, Conclusion)

Some Significant Twenty-First Century Translations The Qur’an (2004) M.A.S. Abdel-Haleem Published in...

April 10, 2018

Some Notes on English Translations of the Qur’an (Part 3)

Building upon two previous entries, here and here, I offer a bit more...

April 09, 2018

Some Notes on English Translations of the Qur’an (Part 2)

Continuing -- see the first installment here -- with some notes that I...

April 08, 2018

Some Notes on English Translations of the Qur’an (Part 1)

Some notes that I wrote up, at the request of a committee in...

April 03, 2018

Islam and the challenge of the modern world

More from The Manuscript: The struggle that today's Muslims have with the...

April 02, 2018

Denial

Every day, a little bit more of the preliminary manuscript: But this...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Thinking about Easter and idolatry on a General Conference Saturday

If you can find about 45 minutes -- of course, you can watch...

March 30, 2018

Western dominance and Muslim pride

First of all, I would like to ask for some help. Because of...

March 29, 2018

Some notes from a politically conservative Latter-day Saint Islamicist

An interesting article: "Mormons want to save the planet — it’s part...

March 29, 2018

“Occidentosis”

Every day, a bit more: Needless to say, Marxism could not deliver...

March 27, 2018

“Arab socialism”

And the beat goes on . . . The refusal of the...

March 27, 2018

European colonialism and the “mission civilisatrice”

Some more from The Manuscript: However, in the interest of historical accuracy...

March 26, 2018

The image of the West in the Middle East

Regarding relatively sophisticated contemporary Muslims in the Middle East: They often know...

March 25, 2018

The challenge of Western dominance

Every day, a bit more: As Muslims began to realize the extent...

March 24, 2018

The triumph of the past

On the relative and absolute decline of the Islamic world, beginning with particular...

March 23, 2018

Introducing the Modern Period

I'll complete the analogy in the next installment: In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte,...

March 22, 2018

“The Sick Man of Europe”

A few more lines from the book in progress: This vast and...

March 20, 2018

Meet the Janissaries

Still discussing the Ottoman Empire: The Ottomans had yet another military asset...

March 19, 2018

The Rise of the Ottomans

There's still quite a bit of preliminary-draft manuscript to go, so I need...

March 18, 2018

The Period of the Gunpowder Empires, from 1500 to 1800

Coming still closer to the present: As might be guessed from...