Islam

Flightless Birds

The separation of Christians and Muslims in Cyprus points to the destructive potential of ideology. Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2019

Persecution and Constitutional Theocracy

by Peter J. Leithart

Immense practical obstacles stand in the way of making the liberal principles of the Universal Declaration truly universal. Continue Reading »

10 May 2019

The Catholic Church in the West is full of corruption—financial, sexual, and spiritual. We are forced to face this hard reality, not the least because the weak pontificate of Pope Francis offers so little of substance. The corruption that afflicts us does not arise from overpowering lusts. Our . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Why I Became Muslim

by Jacob Williams

Growing up in twenty-first-century Britain, I was often struck by a feeling of anomie. Around the time I was born, John Major tried to evoke a vanished past by conjuring “long shadows on county grounds” and “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.” As for my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Allah's Mercy and Wrath

by Gabriel Said Reynolds

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 his latest book, he compares the gods of the Qur’an and Bible, with sympathy for the former. Instead of addressing the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

Letters

by Various

Muslim Progressives Paul Rowan Brian (“Muslims in American Politics,” November) has deftly laid bare the source of Muslims’ predicament in the United States: their profound anxiety over being accepted as “real” Americans, and the tendency of this anxiety to overcome their confidence in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

Historical-Critical Qur’an

by Paul V. Mankowski

The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary by gabriel said reynolds yale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly named. The blame, if blame there be, rests with the stingy conventions of contemporary publishing. The work deserves one of those splendidly prolix seventeenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Muslims in American Politics

by Paul Rowan Brian

In the summer of 2017, something unusual happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual conference in Chicago. A table set up by Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) in partnership with Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was removed after an attendee complained. The booth had been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018