Category: Book Reviews
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A Devil Theory of Islam
A Review of Judith Miller’s “God Has Ninety-Nine Names : Reporting From a Militant Middle East” The Nation, August 12⁄19, 1996 Judith Miller is a New York Times reporter much in evidence on talk shows and seminars on the Middle East. She trades in “the Islamic threat” — her particular mission has been to advance the millennial thesis that militant Islam…
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Criticism of Arthur Jeffery’s “Materials For The History Of The Text Of The Qur’an : The Old Codices”
This excerpt criticises the work of the Orientalist Arthur Jeffery mentioned as well as discusses the various misunderstandings of the technical terms held by Jeffery.
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Book Review : Ibn Warraq, “The Quest for the Historical Muhammad” (NY : 2000)
The study of Islam’s origins, including the life of Muhammad, is a notoriously contentious undertaking. Scholars with admirable training differ sharply among themselves on how to understand it. The appearance of a volume that claims to provide “sufficient background to put the current debates, between revisionists and traditionalists about the origins of Islam, in their intellectual context”…