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January 2024

January 29, 2024

A note on Joseph Smith and Muhammad

Meridian Magazine has just posted a new article of mine entitled "The Problem of...

July 2023

July 07, 2023

“A Second Mohammed”?

We were up early this morning, again -- our little family group now...

January 2023

January 17, 2023

On an American university’s imposing one particular version of Islamic orthodoxy on its students and faculty

By now, you may perhaps have heard of this outrageous case from Hamline...

November 2021

November 21, 2021

Huge Mosques and Even Bigger Pyramids

*** Today was another very good day. We started off with a...

October 2021

October 20, 2021

A significant statement regarding the Church and Islam

*** First, though, Kyler Rasmussen's latest installment in his series of Bayesian...

September 2021

September 09, 2021

Temples, all the way down

*** I've been quite busy today, and I haven't been at my...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

Addendum 4: Some Notes on the Nature of Qur’anic Revelation

*** "The great religious leaders of the world such as Mohammed, Confucius,...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

Reacting to the recent Islamist terror attacks in France

When the French middle school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered on 16 October 2020 in...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

Revision 5.7 “Islamic Law” (F)

This is important because Islamic law covers a far wider range of actions...

September 19, 2020

Revision 5.6 “Islamic Law” (E)

Of course, there was always the danger that an irresponsible, ignorant, or incompetent...

September 18, 2020

Revision 5.5 “Islamic Law” (D)

Over the course of many years, students of the traditions about Muhammad and...

September 17, 2020

Revision 5.4 “Islamic Law” (C)

Actually, what I have been saying is an oversimplification. It was only gradually...

September 16, 2020

Revision 5.3 “Islamic Law” (B)

The opposite of sunna, first in pre-Islamic Arabia and ultimately within Islam itself,...

September 15, 2020

Revision 5.2 “Islamic Law” (A)

Making Arabic the language of administration in the empire was part of a...

September 12, 2020

Revision 4.25 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 5, Conclusion)

This focus upon submission to the inscrutable will of God as the characteristic...

September 11, 2020

Revision 4.24 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 4)

Islam insists on an absolute gulf, an unbridgeable chasm, between God and everything...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.23 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 3)

Islam is an absolutely rigorous, pure monotheism. "To God alone is true worship...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.22 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 2)

I have already hinted in this chapter at some of the differences between...

September 02, 2020

Revision 4.15 “Almsgiving and fasting in Islam, preceded by a bit more on prayer”

Remarkably, although the duty of prayer is often mentioned in the Qur'an, that...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Revision 4.13 “The Five Pillars of Islam” (Part 1)

President Spencer W. Kimball used to speak of the thirteen Articles of Faith,...

August 17, 2020

Revision 3.15 “The First Arab Conquests”

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

August 16, 2020

Revision 3.14 “The Succession to Muhammad”

In AD 632: Muhammad was dead. Now came the question of...

August 15, 2020

Revision 3.13 “So, was he or wasn’t he?”

So, the impatient reader is asking by now, just what are we to...

August 14, 2020

Revision 3.12 “Latter-day Saints in the Middle”

In an entry that I posted here a few days ago, I commented...

August 13, 2020

Revision 3.11 “What Are We to Make of Muhammad?” (An Introductory Comment)

Evaluations of Muhammad have varied wildly. Skeptical Western writers for years regarded him...

August 12, 2020

Revision 3.10 “The Death of Muhammad”

By the year 632, Muhammad had subdued all of the Arabian peninsula. The...

August 11, 2020

Muhammad frowned.

For all that it criticizes the unbelievers of Arabia, though, the Qur'an does...

August 10, 2020

Revision 3.8 “From Prophet to Prophet-Statesman”

Nevertheless, Muhammad's transformation from prophet to prophet-statesman had profound consequences for the nature...

August 09, 2020

Revision 3.7 “Muhammad’s Reception Among the Arabs” (Part 2)

In 622, the Prophet and his followers emigrated from Mecca to Yathrib. This...

August 08, 2020

Revision 3.6 “Muhammad’s Reception among the Arabs” (Part 1)

Muhammad's Reception among the Arabs In these early days of his prophetic ministry...