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Allah, Emeth, and Queen Elizabeth 2 Mar 2013 | 07:43 am
A Christian’s honest reflection on the nature of God in Christianity and Islam Currently I'm reading Miroslav Volf’s Allah: A Christian Response (HarperOne, 2011). Volf raises a question asked by man...
What About Muhammad's Wives? 7 Dec 2012 | 09:15 am
When the Innocence of Muslims sparked protests across the Muslim world last September, I thought I should as a scholar of Islam at least know what the uproar was about. An Internet search turned up ab...
A Muslim DaVinci Code? 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of Dan Brown's provocative The DaVinci Code. I'm afraid I'm one of those oddities that never did see the movie and who only read short sections of the novel. ...
What Pilgrims Overlook 11 Mar 2012 | 10:36 am
Many years ago now, I spent six weeks in the Old City of Jerusalem studying at what was then the Institute of Holy Land Studies through my college's biblical studies summer program. We spent hours and...
Are Pictures Worth Fighting Over? 5 Feb 2012 | 05:15 pm
Some years ago, I remember proudly showing a course pack I had put together on the history of Muslim-Christian interaction to a Muslim friend of mine. The booklet displayed on each page pictures I had...
A New Project 7 Jan 2012 | 04:35 pm
With this post, I'm initiating a new phase to this blog. I am this month beginning doctoral research through the University of Exeter on the monastery of Mar Saba (located near Bethlehem) and its rela...
Taking a 'Break' 12 Mar 2010 | 08:37 am
As my master's program at Oxford University draws to a close this June, so also is the program intensifying. Oxford University has the rather quaint but very stressful tradition of slotting all of the...
It's the End of the World (as Muslims Knew It) 6 Feb 2010 | 04:39 am
Few natural wonders have impressed me as much as the Rock of Gibraltar, a small mountain range jutting out of the southern Spanish coast into the Mediterranean and pointed towards Morocco. My family a...
The Jizyah: Abolished but not Forgotten 28 Dec 2009 | 12:05 pm
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Unless you are a specialist in Islamic or medieval history, the word jizyah probably doesn’t mean anything to you. But that would not have b...
A New Take on a Budweiser Story 19 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
There's a story going round on the Internet that on September 11, 2001, a Budweiser employee in California entered a shop to find its Arab owners whooping and hollering in appreciation for what the te...
