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Tag Archives: Islam
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism at Ansche Chesed (Mary Boys & Abdullah Antepli)
With an open heart and critical eye, the future of liberal Judaism is interfaith, especially between Jews and Muslims, and Christians, especially between Jews and Muslims. That’s what’s important, and difficult. A big crowd came out this past Shabbat at … Continue reading
(Event) Christian-Muslim-Jewish (Ansche Chesed) (Feb 19-20)
Hey New Yorkers, there’s a big event with Mary Boys and Abdullah Antepli at Ansche Chesed about Christian, Jewish, and Muslim interfaith learning and common community building. If liberal religion has a future, this is going to be a part of … Continue reading
Sticking Together (Sunni Islam and Jamā`a Judaism)
Neither impressive nor interesting is Patricia Crone’s characterization of the Sunni political model as “Judaic,” i.e. this notion that in Sunni Islam and in Judaism appeals to universal truth are “used” to sanctify a particular social-political form on the … Continue reading
Intersections (Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Israeli)
Nicolas Kristof in this week’s New York Times, which you can read here, writes about a teenager escaping ISIS controlled territory. The unexpected shout-out to an Israeli NGO offering assistance to refugees landing in Lesbos makes a strong point about … Continue reading
Vladimir Putin (What Bernard Lewis Got Right)
Say what you want about Bernard Lewis, but check out these concluding words to his much and in so many ways justifiably maligned What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. They are quite prescient, … Continue reading
Catastrophe Affect & Human Values (Responding to the Middle East Today)
I’m not sure about these confessional remarks. On the one hand, the thoughts reflected here cut what is probably too wide a swath through a highly reified and mediated conceptualizations of “Islam” and “the Middle East,” while reflecting my own … Continue reading
Amorphous Names Like “Radical Islamic” and the “War on Terror” Make Too Little Sense
What are people supposed to call this violent surge? What is its name? What are people in fact calling it? Hillary Clinton was right to reject the rubric “Radical Islam.” She said that her preferred term is “jihadist,” the idea … Continue reading
Knowing Islam Now (Just Like Anything Else)
Like so many others, I’m reading the papers about the terrorist attacks in Paris with concern and consternation. But I do so also as a scholar of modern Judaism, Jewish thought and philosophy, and Religion Studies. In these capacities, I don’t … Continue reading
State Society Religion (Islamic Political Thought) (Patricia Crone)
Definitely one of the most exciting and thought-changing books I’ve read in a long time, the late Patricia Crone’s God’s Rule — Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought can be looked at as a massive corrective to … Continue reading
The Abbasids – History, Landscapes & Pictures
Trying to do due diligence on Arabic and Islamic history, I picked up Hugh Kennedy’s When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty at a friend’s recommendation. It’s good meat and potatoes orientalism. The … Continue reading