by Qassim Rashid A man whom The Economist calls “one of America’s best scholars on religion” has just released his latest book, “Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can’t Ignore the Bible’s Violent Verses.” Author Philip Jenkins presents a perspective about Christianity, Islam and Judaism that forces readers to think […]
Source: BBC By Shoku Amirani & Stephanie Hegarty Kahlil Gibran is said to be one of the world’s bestselling poets, and his life has inspired a play touring the UK and the Middle East. But many critics have been lukewarm about his merits. Why, then, has his seminal work, The […]
“After polygamy was made a sin” by John Cairncross Published 1974 by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. ISBN 0 7100 7730 Introduction This book, subtitled “The Social History of Christian Polygamy”, was written by a former British civil-servant and journalist who discovered an anti-polygamy book in a Paris bookstore in […]
NY Times: by Jonathan Haidt: THE RIGHTEOUS MIND You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure […]
With more than 2 million members, MoveOn is at the cutting edge of a new model for political activism. In their first-ever book, they take their message offline with MoveOn’s 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change, in an […]
Author: Maher Abu-Munshar Reviewed by: Rabia Mir (Canada) About the author: Dr Maher Abu-Munshar is Assistant Professor in Qatar University. He completed his PhD in 2003 (Dundee, UK) and won in […]
Source: BDNews24 Dhaka, Feb 1 (bdnews24.com) – Kolkata Book Fair cancelled the release of Taslima Nasreen’s latest book, Nirbashan, which was scheduled at 3 pm Tuesday. The organisers of the fair, Publishers and Booksellers Guild, telephoned the publisher to cancel the auditorium booking, The Times of India said. “We were […]
Source: Qantara With his new book, Stefan Weidner would like to straighten out our simplified, cliché-ridden perception of Islam by looking at phenomena such as Sharia from an unusual perspective. […]
Montgomery Watt calls Muhammad, one of the Greatest sons of Adam. The expression, seal of the Prophets means the Greatest Prophet! According to Karen Armstrong, “Mahound’s fictional status in the […]
A new work of fiction about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict sounds at times a lot like fact. Haaretz: The President of the United States, haunted by troubles home and abroad, finally […]
A so-called ‘insider’ exposed by Ansar Raza All religions, Islam being no exception, must confront the severe criticism of its teachings. In the past 14 centuries many Orientalists, based on […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times George Santayana is well known for the saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” […]
The Subversion of Islam Throughout History Until the Present Day. This is a book and here a review is quoted from the original site. By David Livingstone and Sahib Mustaqim […]
Mark Twain said, “It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason … I read it first when I was a […]
By: Jaime T. Licauco: Philippine Daily Inquirer. However, it cannot be denied that centuries before the advent of Jesus, there were already pagan beliefs in dying and resurrecting god-men, which paralleled the story of Jesus as depicted in the Gospels adopted by the early Christians in 320 A.D., during the […]
This book covers several themes and many messages to different groups of Muslims around the world. The underlying message is that under a defeatist mindset, Muslim scholars adopted politically expedient […]
Book of the Year: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism A sea-change is happening in the world of autism. Just a few years ago, the loudest voices in media coverage of […]
For too long, Mr. Plantinga contends in a new book, theists have been on the defensive, merely rebutting the charge that their beliefs are irrational. It’s time for believers in the old-fashioned creator God of the Bible to go on the offensive, he argues, and he has some sports metaphors […]
by H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammed of Jordan. “An outstanding work, worthy of praise and esteem for its method, its content and its language.” —H.E. Imam Prof. Dr Ahmad Muhammad al-TayyibGrand Sheikh of al-Azhar and supervisor of the thesis at al-Azhar University Kazi Publications is excited to announce that it […]
by Marc-André Miserez, swissinfo.ch Before he became the king of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej lived an almost ordinary life as a student on Lake Geneva in western Switzerland. A new book, written in French by Swiss journalist and author Olivier Grivat, looks at the adolescence of a shy young man, who […]