Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Qur’an includes Jews and Christians among the “People of the Book,” among those to whom God has revealed something of divine truth in past times. Yet Islamic tradition insists that the Jews and Christians corrupted that revelation, and laments their failure to recognize the final revelation given to Muhammad… . Continue Reading »

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 explained, was a land where the Bible was hardly known, even if it had become a refuge for Jewish and Christian heretics . . . . Continue Reading »

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 Ramadan accepted a prestigious position at the University of Notre Dame. The State Department, however, revoked . . . . Continue Reading »