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August 2026

August 29, 2026

Some thoughts on Islam and terrorist violence

Charles Kurzman, who is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina...

July 2022

July 17, 2022

“Plural Marriage — Part 1” and a Disappointment

A new entry in our series of short video "reels" went up on...

November 2021

November 08, 2021

Lighting the World

*** I'm delighted at this news, which comes right out of the...

July 2021

July 05, 2021

“Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead”

*** This "new" reprint article by David M. Calabro appeared just a...

May 2021

May 07, 2021

Addendum 6: Founding the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at BYU (Part 2)

*** First, though, don't miss this newly published item on the website...

May 03, 2021

“The Divine Handclasp in the Hebrew Bible and in Near Eastern Iconography”

*** Another article has appeared, this one by David M. Calabro, in Interpreter:...

December 2020

December 06, 2020

Revision 8.6 “Near Eastern Missions and a Branch in Jerusalem”

President Booth's sudden death did not end missionary work in the Near East....

November 2020

November 28, 2020

Revision 8.5.”David O. McKay, Hugh J. Cannon, and Joseph Wilford Booth”

Carrying on from my last installment, Revision 8.4 A Latter-day Saint Presence in Palestine...

November 07, 2020

Revision 8.3 “On Early Apostles and Missionaries in the Holy Land and the Near East”

This was, however, not the last time that apostles of the Lord would...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

Revision 6.18 “The United Nations Plan,” plus a bibliography on Latter-day Saints and Islam

There were serious clashes between Arabs and Jewish settlers throughout the 1920s and...

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 05, 2020

“Janus Parallelism: Speculation on a Possible Poetic Wordplay in the Book of Mormon”

A couple of new items are up on the website of the Interpreter...

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...

October 02, 2020

Revision 5.19 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 2, Including Excurses on Chess and the Book of Mormon)

Changing gears, it is worth noting that many terms connected with warfare have...

October 01, 2020

Revision 5.18 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 1)

Finally, I offer a grab bag of words on various subjects, to illustrate...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

Revision 5.8 “The Umayyads”

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

September 13, 2020

Once Again, a Note on Traditional Arabic Names

I think that I need to explain traditional Arabic names to the readers...

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 12, 2020

The Decline of the East

I have, once or twice, used Daniel W. Brown, A New Introduction to...

June 11, 2020

Enter the age of Marshall Hodgson’s “Gunpowder Empires”

At least once, and perhaps twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New...

May 2020

May 21, 2020

“Who founded Hinduism?” and other matters

My latest bi-weekly column for the Salt Lake City Deseret News has now appeared:...

May 20, 2020

Arabs and religious fanaticism

While I have the book out and while it's sitting to the left...

May 19, 2020

Do Arabs hate America?

James Zogby, born to a Lebanese Catholic immigrant father, earned a doctorate in...

May 18, 2020

The fire-breathing Arab

Some additional extracts from James Zogby, Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us,...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

The beginning of modernity in the Middle East

Once or twice, I used Daniel W. Brown, A New Introduction to Islam,...