Book Review: Can Religion and Science Coexist?
Source: The Atlantic Reviewed by JEFFREY TAYLER A new book by the evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne tackles arguments that the two institutions are compatible. In May 1988, a 13-year-old girl […]
How the World Works – by Noam Chomsky
By Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Barsamian (Contributor) According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited […]
Book Review: Basics of Islamic Religious Education
Basics of Religious Education $20.00 Complied by Br. Sheikh Abdul Hadi Fifth Edition, 2008 Description: The original was published in 1993 and very quickly became the standard handbook for imparting Islamic religious education and training to young and old alike. The present edition has been substantially revised and brought up […]
Book Review: Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth
Regular price: $30.00 Sale price: $25.00 Author: Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rh, 4th Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Description: Any divide between revelation and rationality, religion and logic has to be irrational. If religion and rationality cannot proceed hand in hand, there has to be something deeply wrong with either […]
Book Review: The Relevance of the Islamic Identity in Canada
Source: The Star Muslims grapple with their place in Canada: Goar A new book provides a glimpse into life as a Muslim in Canada Former Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui contributes a […]
Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves. (Al Quran 2:144) Piety […]
Book Review: The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
Book Review: Muslim, Christian and Jew: Finding a Path to Peace Our Faiths Can Share
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves. (Al Quran 2:144) Source: […]
Book Review: Shlomo Sand: ‘I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew’
Source: The Guardian Collected for the Muslim Times by Rafiq A. Tschannen During the first half of the 20th century, my father abandoned Talmudic school, permanently stopped going to synagogue, […]
Myth: The Bible is the Word of God
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer and musician from Chicago What is the Bible? Is it a collection of scriptures written by men, or something more? Conservative Christianity affirms the […]
Book Review: Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands
Book by Debra Majeed Details: 192 pages 6×9 Cloth: $74.95 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6077-4 Pub date: 6/30/2015 Sample Chapter(s): Table of Contents Excerpt “Captivating, provocative, and groundbreaking. Taking up the mandate that women’s realities matter, Majeed writes with depth and analytical rigor about a topic we have scarcely begun to understand.”–Amina […]
Book Review : Women in Islam: Exploring New Paradigms
Book Review, Moin Qazi’s – revolutionary approach to women’s empowerment Women in Islam: Exploring New Paradigms By Moin Qazi Published by Notion Press, Chennai, India, Year (2015), Pages: 141, ISBN: 978-93-84878-03-0, Price: 199 Reviewed […]
Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands (book review)
via THE FLORIDA BOOKSHELF (NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA) on JUNE 30, 2015: “Captivating, provocative, and groundbreaking. Taking up the mandate that women’s realities matter, Majeed writes with depth and analytical rigor about a topic we have scarcely begun to understand.”—Amina Wadud, author of […]
Book Review: Saving the Original Sinner: How Christians Have Used the Bible’s First Man to Oppress
Saving the Original Sinner: How Christians Have Used the Bible’s First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World Source: Amazon Book by Karl W. Giberson (Author) A […]
Book Review: Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace
Amazon Book Review: Book by Jonathan Powell (Author) Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, […]
Video: Jimmy Carter’s new memoir “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.”
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=556f435dfe34447c590000a8&autoPlay=false Man of the Decade: President Jimmy Carter in the Light of His Books
Book Review: Tariq Mehmood, You're Not Proper
Source: Huffington Post By Claire Chambers; Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York The literary world is currently witnessing a boom in Young Adult fiction, but the state of diversity […]
Book Review: Tariq Mehmood, You’re Not Proper
Source: Huffington Post By Claire Chambers; Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York The literary world is currently witnessing a boom in Young Adult fiction, but the state of diversity […]
Book Review: Ibn Sena and The Canon of Medicine
Ibn Sina and the Canon of Medicine, its translators and commentators Author Prof. Syed Zillur Rahman, Aligarh, India – translator Zakaria Virk Reviewed by Dr. Khalid Sohail, Toronto Source: www.drsohail.com When […]