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Reopening Muslim Minds:A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Toleranceby Mustafa AkyolSt. Martin’s, 336 pages, $28 Islam,” Mustafa Akyol writes in his latest book, “is not the powerful, creative, sophisticated,...

God in the Qur’an by jack miles knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author and editor, is best known for God: A Biography. In...

The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims by mustafa akyol st. martin’s, 288 pages, $26.99 On September 25, 2017, Mustafa Akyol...

On Monday, December 12, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked alongside the Coptic Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II at the funeral procession for victims of the bombing that had killed...

God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran by navid kermani wiley, 400 pages, $45 According to the Islamic doctrine of iʿjāz, the Qur’an is an inimitable book,...

In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland oxford, 320 pages, $29.95 Amedieval Islamic tradition recounts that the Prophet Muhammad...

In August 2013 the Sudanese authorities arrested Meriam Ibrahim, daughter of a Sudanese Muslim man and an Ethiopian Christian woman, after a Muslim relative informed them of her marriage...

Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an, yet the Qur’an won’t tell them much about Jesus. It mentions his...

In the book The Critique of Christian Origins , written in a.d. 995, Iranian theologian Abd al-Jabbar tells the story of a Muslim prisoner of war who converted to...

The Future of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford, 220 pages, $24.95 n In the forward to John Esposito’s latest book, The Future of Islam , Karen Armstrong insists...

[Editor’s Note: This is the third entry in a three-part series on the Swiss minaret ban. Read the first entry here and the second here .] The Qur’an includes...

In the West the Qur’an has long been understood as the work of Muhammad, a religious reformer in the pagan world of seventh-century Arabia. Muhammad’s Arabia, it is commonly...

The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178 pages, $25 paper In 2004 the Swiss Muslim scholar and activist Tariq...