Looking for Islam in All the Wrong Places: A Response to Nabeel Qureshi
Nabeel Qureshi made his debut into the evangelical anti-Muslim apologetics market with his conversion narrative…
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Inventing “Jihad”
Last week, in the wake of Russian-led investigation, it was reported that when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in Russia he was, in fact, more eager to wage war than the Islamist contacts he had traveled to find. Accounts reveal that he arrived in Russia with “an avid interest in waging jihad.”
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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah
Sadakat Kadri’s Heaven on Earth is the kind of book that can appeal to the curious, as well as the intellectually serious—that strange product which actually leaves you knowing more about Islam than you did before you started.
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Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?
What happens when a breakthrough in technology leaves religious scholars without much to go on?
Read MoreAhmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims
Its depiction of good and bad Muslims is damaging to the community as a whole.
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Sexual Ethics and Islam
Asked about other titles she’d considered, Ali replied, “I would have accepted any title that didn’t have ‘veil’ in it.”
Read MoreThe Double Blessing: Obama, the Bible, and Outreach to Muslims
From a religious and biblical perspective, the sons of Isaac have long viewed the sons of Ishmael as potential enemies, and vice versa. Each side sees the other as the opponent in a battle for God’s single blessing. But—in fact—God invented the two-state solution in Genesis 21.
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