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July 2025

July 21, 2025

I’m going to die. So are you.

A new article of mine has just appeared today in Meridian Magazine: "Facing the...

December 2024

December 09, 2024

Thoughts on Syria (and on a Slander)

Some notes about the astonishing turn of events in Syria: Russia is a big...

March 2023

March 03, 2023

Lehi and Ishmael in Antiquity

The Interpreter Foundation continues to flourish, much to the disgust of at...

February 2023

February 09, 2023

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: How to Help

I already suggested here yesterday that Latter-day Saints should consider contributing to the...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

“Abraham’s Amen and Believing in Christ”

*** It's very easy, from this distance in time and place, not...

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 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 11, 2020

Revision 6.7 “Gunpowder Empires” (B)

The Ottomans had yet another military asset that served them well. That was...

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 07, 2020

Revision 6.3 “Mamluks and the Problem of Political Succession”

Saladin established a dynasty in Egypt and Syria, but it never quite measured...

October 05, 2020

Revision 6.2 “Meet the Middle Periods”

Overall, it can be said that the principal characteristic of the Middle Periods...

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....

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Revision 5.10 “The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate”

But the emphasis of the ‘ulama’ on law and on behavior came, in the...

September 22, 2020

Revision 5.9 “Enter the Abbasids”

In the middle of the eighth century, a revolt commenced in far-off Khurasan,...

September 21, 2020

Revision 5.8 “The Umayyads”

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

August 2020

August 17, 2020

Revision 3.15 “The First Arab Conquests”

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

October 2019

October 18, 2019

Syria, the Kurds, and “Mormons to the Rescue?”

New York Times: "Mormons to the Rescue? The reddest faith in America is also...

October 16, 2019

“Elder Holland gives an inside look to miracles that made the BYU Jerusalem Center possible”

But first: "Hevrin Khalaf, Kurdish Politician Who Championed Christians, Executed in Syria"...

October 15, 2019

Two Qur’anic passages about families

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

October 14, 2019

“The Kurds, caught between four modern countries”

The most recent Hamblin-Peterson column for the Deseret News appeared three days ago....

October 08, 2019

Mr. Trump’s shameful betrayal of our Kurdish allies

When I heard, on Sunday night, that Donald Trump had decided to clear...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Unutterable sadness in Syria. Please don’t avert your eyes.

This is horribly, unspeakably, agonizingly sad: "Syrian girl dies after saving sister's...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Some urgent news, along with some very old news

It's rather late notice -- I've been very busy over the past...