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September 2020

September 04, 2020

Revision 4.17 “Jihad”

This is roughly how the relevant text read in my old book Abraham...

September 03, 2020

Revision 4.16 “The Hajj”

It is incumbent upon every Muslim who can afford to do so to...

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

Nature and “Natural Theology”

Here's a passage from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for...

August 30, 2020

Revision 4.12 “The Treatment of Women”

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

August 29, 2020

Revision 4.11 “More on the Ethical Values of the Qur’an”

The sins that are likely to characterize the wealthy in a commercial society...

August 28, 2020

Revision 4.10 “On the Moral Teachings of the Qur’an”

It is on the basis of his or her faith and good works,...

August 27, 2020

Revision 4.9 “Hell and Heaven in the Qur’an”

The ultimate destination of the damned is described in the Qur'an with highly...

August 26, 2020

Revision 4.8 “Judgment and Grace in Islam”

I continue chugging along with my manuscript on Islam for Latter-day Saints. Here,...

August 25, 2020

Revision 4.7 “The Qur’an on the Last Days”

As we saw in the last chapter, one of the major themes of...

August 24, 2020

Revision 4.6 “The Religion of Abraham”

Yet the Qur'an does not bring any new truths. It does not claim...

August 23, 2020

Revision 4.5 “Muhammad and the Restoration of Lost Truth”

After those prophets We sent forth Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming the...

August 22, 2020

Revision 4.4 “Dispensations”

We'll now proceed to examine some of the teachings of the Qur’an in...

August 21, 2020

Revision 4.3 “The Qur’an and the Doctrine and Covenants”

But there is a deeper theological reason for the claim that the Qur'an...

August 20, 2020

Revision 4.2 “Can the Qur’an Be Translated?” (Plus a Note on Religious Bigotry and Me)

This Muslim emphasis on the words and style of the Arabic Qur'an was...

August 19, 2020

Revision 4.1 “Islam and the Qur’an”

Muslims believe that the Qur'an as they have it today is an actual...

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 06, 2020

Revision 3.4 “Continuing with Muhammad at Mecca”

For this belief [in a physical resurrection] and others, the doubters made fun...

August 05, 2020

Revision 3.3 “The Meccan Chapters of the Qur’an”

Muslims and Western scholars agree upon a division of the suras or chapters...

August 04, 2020

Revision 3.2 “Muhammad in Mecca”

Muhammad in Mecca Within a few years of his birth at Mecca in...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Napoleon the Muslim

A perfectly astounding passage from Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York: Bantam...

April 2020

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 01, 2020

“Let your light so shine”

Matthew Wheeler kindly called my attention to this item: "Malaysia's Queen is...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep”

Quite a number of years ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Macmillan Encyclopedia...

March 15, 2020

William E. McLellin and the Qur’an’s “Challenge Verses”

I offer, for your unlikely but possible interest, a passage from Michael Bonner,...

February 2020

February 22, 2020

Against our sovereign myth?

The LDS Film Festival 2020 opens next week. It will run from Monday,...

January 2020

January 08, 2020

Once more on the Qur’an’s prophecy of America’s role in the Middle East

It has come up yet again, and so I'll attempt to swat it...

December 2019

December 15, 2019

Christmas in the Qur’an

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

October 2019

October 15, 2019

Two Qur’anic passages about families

"US troops express anger at Trump's Syria policy: 'We betrayed' the Kurds" ...