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Liberal Islam

Gabriel Said Reynolds

Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Toleranceby Mustafa AkyolSt. Martin’s, 336 pages, $28 Islam,” Mustafa Akyol writes in his latest book, “is not the powerful, creative,...

Allah’s Mercy and Wrath

Gabriel Said Reynolds

God in the Qur’anby jack miles knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author and editor, is best known for God: A Biography. In his latest...

Jesus for Muslims

Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslimsby mustafa akyolst. martin’s, 288 pages, $26.99 On September 25, 2017, Mustafa Akyol was arrested...

Word Perfect

Gabriel Said Reynolds

God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran by navid kermaniwiley, 400 pages, $45 According to the Islamic doctrine of iʿjāz, the Qur’an is an inimitable book, a...

Holy Warriors

Gabriel Said Reynolds

In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland oxford, 320 pages, $29.95 Amedieval Islamic tradition recounts that the Prophet Muhammad...

Jesus the Muslim Hippie

Gabriel Said Reynolds

Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an, yet the Qur’an won’t tell them much about Jesus. It mentions his...

Evangelizing Islam

Gabriel Said Reynolds

In the book The Critique of Christian Origins , written in a.d. 995, Iranian theologian Abd al-Jabbar tells the story of a Muslim prisoner of war who converted to...

Unbalancing Act

Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Future of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford, 220 pages, $24.95 n In the forward to John Esposito’s latest book, The Future of Islam , Karen Armstrong insists...

Minarets and the Conditions of Umar

Gabriel Said Reynolds

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Reading the Qur’an Through the Bible

Gabriel Said Reynolds

In the West the Qur’an has long been understood as the work of Muhammad, a religious reformer in the pagan world of seventh-century Arabia. Muhammad’s Arabia, it is commonly...

Sanctifying Islam

Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178 pages, $25 paper In 2004 the Swiss Muslim scholar and activist Tariq...