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August 2020

August 30, 2020

Revision 4.12 “The Treatment of Women”

In terms of their prospects for going to either heaven or hell, there...

August 17, 2020

Revision 3.15 “The First Arab Conquests”

Abu Bakr was the first man to bear the title of caliph, to...

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 03, 2020

Middle Eastern Book Revision 1.1

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

June 2020

June 20, 2020

An oppressive theocracy

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

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...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Polling on shari‘a

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

May 17, 2020

Near-Death Experiences among Muslims?

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

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 27, 2020

Introducing Ali Shariati

A bit more from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, translated...

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...

April 22, 2020

One take on “Jihad” and violence in Islam (2)

I continue with notes to myself from John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed,...

April 21, 2020

One take on “Jihad” and violence in Islam (1)

I share a few notes to myself from John L. Esposito and Dalia...

April 20, 2020

A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (2)

I continue with my notes toward a brief introductory discussion of the great...

April 18, 2020

A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (1)

I'm beginning to write up a brief introductory discussion of the great early...

April 16, 2020

On Anwar Sadat and the Fundamentalists

I share some further notes from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political...

April 14, 2020

Once More, on the Temple in Dubai

I liked Charles Kurzman’s book The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim...

April 13, 2020

Back to Designing a Temple for Dubai

I've experienced just a bit of pushback since suggesting, a few days ago,...

April 09, 2020

Designing a Temple for Dubai

The announcement of a new temple to be built in the United Arab...

April 08, 2020

Once again, who speaks for Islam?

I've been involved in an exchange over the past couple of days that...

April 03, 2020

The sunset of Arab nationalism

I share some further notes from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political...

April 02, 2020

Afghanistan as a Jihadi Turning Point

It's time for me to begin extracting notes from certain Islam-related books in...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Premortality and Theosis in a Great Medieval Persian Mystical Poet

I hear hints of a premortal existence in the famous "Song of the...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Remembering Boko Haram’s Dark Vision

I've just finished reading Nina Strochlic, "The Abduction of 276 Nigerian Schoolgirls Outraged...

February 12, 2020

“What is the Islamist Movement?”

Bill Hamblin and I published the column below back in the early 2000s....

February 06, 2020

Sacred Calendars and the Millennium

I published the article below in the Provo Daily Herald on 1 December...