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April 2021

April 12, 2021

A Triptych on Fasting, Latter-day Saints, Muslims, Anti-COVID Vaccinations, Dan Vogel, and the Book of Abraham

*** First, I want to pass along these items from Sam LeFevre,...

April 11, 2021

Against “tolerance,” and “adieu” to teaching

*** I cordially dislike the idea of "religious tolerance." Not because (as...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Notes Regarding China’s War Against Its Religious Citizens

*** Here's a new posting on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

Revision 8.15. Looking Forward to a Glorious and Peaceful Future for the Middle East

But, first: Book of Moses Essays #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

Mary and the Infant Jesus in the Qur’an (My Translation), Plus a Note on Reductionism

My column for this week in the Deseret News: "How the Annunciation...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

Ziauddin Yousafzai

I received this note from my former dean in the BYU College of...

November 05, 2020

Hagia Sophia, Tenochtitlan, the Incas’ Golden Temple, and Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column has appeared in the Deseret News,...

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...

October 19, 2020

Revision 6.14 “Denial”

But, sadly, this understandable desire to get the attention of the West is...

October 18, 2020

Revision 6.10a “The West achieves dominance” (addendum)

It's commonly believed among Muslims that the Qur’an cannot be translated. Not that...

October 17, 2020

Revision 6.13 “Occidentosis”

Needless to say, Marxism could not deliver on its promises, nor give dissatisfied...

October 16, 2020

Revision 6.12 “A quack-medicine cure appears”

The refusal of the British and of the French to leave their colonies...

October 15, 2020

Revision 6.11 “The mission civilatrise”

However, in the interest of historical accuracy I must say that the Islamic...

October 14, 2020

Revision 6.10 “The West achieves dominance”

As Muslims began to realize the extent of Western technical and material superiority,...

October 13, 2020

Revision 6.9 “Entering the Modern Period”

Why was Napoleon Bonaparte's conquest of Egypt so important? A Western nation had...

October 12, 2020

Revision 6.8 “The Modern Period, from 1800 to the Present”

For convenience's sake, Marshall Hodgson chose 1800 as the beginning of what he...

October 10, 2020

Revision 6.6 “Gunpowder Empires” (A)

The Period of the Gunpowder Empires (1500-1800) As might be guessed from...

October 09, 2020

Revision 6.5 “Setbacks and Advances” [Needs Considerable Expansion]

As the Arabs declined, however, new Islamic powers were on the rise. Prominent...

October 08, 2020

Revision 6.4 “Of Mamluks and Mongols”

In time, the Turkish overlords of the Arab world lost their grip on...

October 05, 2020

Revision 6.1 “Decline and Response, ‘Party Kings’ and Crusaders”

My manuscript now begins to treat what I call, following Marshall G. S....

October 04, 2020

Revision 5.21 “The End of the High Caliphal Period”

I have tried, by means of this rather lengthy digression into word origins...

October 03, 2020

Revision 5.20 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 3)

But we return to our investigation of words that the West has borrowed...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Revision 5.17 “What the West Owes the East” (The Arts)

Arabic influence is clearly visible in the arts and crafts of the West....

September 28, 2020

Revision 5.16 “What the West Owes the East” (Literature)

Did Arabic literature have any impact upon the literature of the West? Few...

September 28, 2020

Revision 5.15 “What the West Owes the East” (Navigation, Optics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Calendrics)

Few readers are surprised, probably, to learn that the name Sahara is Arabic...

September 27, 2020

Revision 5.14 “What the West Owes the East” (Medicine and Other Sciences)

In medicine, the Western debt to the Arabs is every bit as great...

September 26, 2020

Revision 5.13 “What the West Owes the East” (Mathematics)

Arab and other Muslims had very practical reasons for their interest in mathematics....

September 25, 2020

Revision 5.12 “What the West Owes the East” (Take Two)

In the ninth century, translation from Greek into Arabic developed rapidly. Since possibly...

September 24, 2020

Revision 5.11 “What the West Owes the East” (Take One)

In the meantime, an immensely rich civilization—rich in every way—had been created. A...

September 21, 2020

Revision 5.8 “The Umayyads”

The Arab expansion continued in the early years of the High Caliphal Period....