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February 2020

February 23, 2020

An inheritance for all the peoples of the world

When the first volume of the new Islamic Translation Series was published in...

February 11, 2020

“God’s Love for All Mankind”

Every once in a while, I think it appropriate to remind Latter-day Saints...

December 2019

December 15, 2019

Christmas in the Qur’an

The Qur’an on the Annunciation of Christ Behold! The angels said: “O...

November 2019

November 17, 2019

A bit of “biblical” history that you may never have encountered before

I continue here with a folkloric account, recorded in the eighth century AD, of...

November 16, 2019

How Solomon built his temple

From Ma‘mar ibn Rashid, The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad, translated by...

November 13, 2019

Is Islam really a religion?

People write to me from time to time insisting that Islam isn't actually...

November 11, 2019

Islamic Relief and the Latter-day Saints

It's just a hunch, but I'm guessing that, when most Americans think of...

November 08, 2019

“Enter Paradise, you and your spouses: you will be filled with joy.”

From time to time, I read claims that Islam and Muslims have contributed...

November 06, 2019

“Muslims and Latter-day Saints can be leaders in building tolerance”

This article, by Dr. Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the leader of the Mecca-based Muslim...

November 02, 2019

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?

Back in 2015, a controversy erupted at Wheaton College in Illinois, a very...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

What a difference a little translation choice can make!

One of the courses that I'm teaching this term focuses on reading the...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

“Muslims have been an integral part of the United States of America since her birth”

My thanks to Matthew Wheeler for calling the following to my attention: ...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

The Mystery of Iniquity

I confess to being mystified as to just what the goal or intent...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

“New Zealand’s Darkest Day”

O you who believe! Seek help in patience and prayer. Truly God is...

March 10, 2019

Iran 4: Going to Church

It seems to me that I've told this story somewhere before but I...

March 05, 2019

An Arab-Islamic Music Video Opposing Extremist Violence

You may have missed this when I first posted it back in 2015,...

February 2019

February 19, 2019

Israel and me

Plainly, comparative religions courses should be more widely taught. Otherwise, bigots will continue...

February 16, 2019

“Is Religious Freedom for Christians Only?”

I'm happy -- to put it mildly -- that the Supreme Court of...

February 14, 2019

Once more, on the supposed psychology of Islamic suicide bombing

Last night, I read Chapter 3 in Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, The Banality of...

February 12, 2019

A reaction of the highest class

Matthew Wheeler kindly brings a really interesting case to my attention. A...

February 11, 2019

“The psychology of Islamic suicide bombing”?

I've just begun reading Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

The Throne Verse, and the Erasure of Muslim Contributions from Western History

Long ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Encyclopedia of Islam...

December 2018

December 02, 2018

A few words on “shari‘a”

I've lately received several inquiries about Islam's shari‘a (or, as it's often somewhat...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

A modest suggestion for Christmas

Several years ago, I published a biography entitled Muhammad: Prophet of God. It was...

November 27, 2018

At the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque

I missed this item when it appeared on the LDS Newsroom website for...

November 23, 2018

A last alert for this coming Tuesday night

As in other places around the globe, Australia is seeing some very impassioned...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

Rise and Fall

I share here a couple of passages extracted for my future use from...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

A very quick summary of Islamicate history

In the classes that I teach on Islam, Islamic history, and Islamicate civilization...

August 26, 2018

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

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

April 2018

April 18, 2018

Another dishonest bit of anti-Islamic propaganda

The anti-Islamic Facebook image or meme that was sent to me the other...