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Sabah A. Salih, professor of English at Bloomsburg University, writes in his review of Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals that Islamism is actually a movement for Arab domination, rather than the pan-Islamist movement of Islamist rhetoric:
Islamism, which is markedly different from the way most practicing Muslims in Kurdistan [...]
Preparing for my Middle Eastern history class, I read an excerpt of Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones, written while the author was imprisoned by Egyptian dictator Gamal Abd al-Nasser’s secular regime. Qutb was extremely influential in modern Islamic radicalism, arguing that the reduction of Islamic influence in the modern world had created a new period of Jahiliyyah, [...]
A lot of work is being done on what the Qur’an refers to [it is largely incomprehensible without exegesis]. Gabriel Said Reynolds has helpfully summarized some of these developments in this article. Another helpful source is this Wikipedia entry on the Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran. I came [...]
Ethan Bronner chronicles an unusual story in the New York Times, telling of a Palestinian lawyer who decided to translate Jewish author Amos Oz’s autobiography into Arabic. Bronner writes that this work, A Tale of Love and Darkness, “is widely considered Mr. Oz’s masterpiece and one of the most important books [...]
After weeks of waiting I received my copy of Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation by John Wansbrough. This book is not a light read. It needs to be read with a copy of the Qur’an close at hand and it requires flipping to [...]
I just read a really different perspective on this issue that I have not seen before. Michael Totten recently interviewed Lee Smith (not the former Cubs reliever) about his new book, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. Smith [...]
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