These volumes look at a range of topics, including the history of Islam, the state of the play in the Middle East, Islam’s ...
Prior to September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed ...
The enormity of the events of September 11 sparked unprecedented demand for books on Islam and the Middle East. For a while in fall 2001, books about Islam, Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan made ...
This article first appeared on The Conversation. Since capturing swaths of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has embarked on a cyberoffensive to spread its message through social ...
In What the Qur’an Meant and Why It Matters, Garry Wills offers what he hopes can be a remedy to this fear: an invitation to pick up the Quran and read it, as he has done. Wills is a Pulitzer ...
As part of the events of the 32nd Doha International Book Fair, an Islamic symposium was held on Monday titled 'The Four Directions of Reading'. The symposium was delivered by the Islamic preacher Dr ...
I was born into a mildly observant Muslim family in Iraq. At that time, the 1950s, secularism was ascendant among the political, cultural, and intellectual elites of the Middle East. It appeared to be ...
This summer, Intersections 2.0 transforms the public realm in Folkestone, UK, into a site of civic memory, cultural exchange, and creative authorship. Conceived by SD Projects, a Folkestone-based ...
In a recent article on Islam and terrorism I bemoaned the fact that the last published recommended reading list I had on ...