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April 2015

April 04, 2015

Deseret News Column: Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi

This week's Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News Column focuses on what could be called the contemporary "Islamic...

December 2014

December 28, 2014

Despair

I have come to despair of ever having a coherent discussion with liberal Mormons. Conservatives...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

Islam Khoja Mosque

Photos from Khiva, Uzbekistan

October 01, 2014

Mysticism and Esotericism Class

I finished reorganizing the recordings of lectures 1-13 from my "Mysticism and Esotericism" class, and placed...

September 2014

September 08, 2014

Mysticism Class 2: What is Mysticism (pt. 1)

A discussion of the range of meanings to the term Mysticism (part 1)

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Mysticism and Esotericism

I'm teaching a new class at BYU this fall: History 485 "Mysticism and Esotericism." I've...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

Mysticism 1: new class at BYU

I'm going to be teaching a class on "Mysticism and Esotericism" at BYU, in Fall...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Temple Mount Riots

Palestinian Muslims rioted today in opposition to Jewish attempts to pray and sacrifice on the...

July 2013

July 01, 2013

DN Column on Sunnis and Shi’ites

From Hamblin and Peterson