According to my new book, “The actual mechanics of cell division require significantly more instructions than it takes to build a moon rocket or supercomputer.” Page 60.
Books
Shaykh Abdal Kakim Murad kindly sent me a copy of his exciting new book which I highly recommend.
Someone asked me a very good question: I might post jucy extracts from time to time. He is very quotable.
Book Recommendations from Dr. Jonathan Brown
Interested in books about Islam, Islamic history, and Islam & politics? Dr. Jonathan Brown offers some book recommendations for you to consider while at home. Reading List: The Message of the Qur’an by Muhammad Asad The Road to Mecca by… Read More ›
The best biographies of Muhammad in English
The Islamic History Book Review presents its top recommendations for the Prophet Muhammad’s Seerah biography in the English language. This is an outstanding survey.
A new book by Dr Tim Winter! ‘Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe’
Tim (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) is the only Muslim I know personally who talks sense about Islam and being Muslim in the West. But he is the lone exception rather than the rule. Most Muslims I know do a great… Read More ›
Who wrote all those books?
“I am not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled books in… Read More ›
Book review: Slavery & Islam by Jonathan A.C. Brown
There are some academics whose books are always worth purchasing, for their erudition, good judgement and readability. Dr Jonathan Brown of Georgetown University is one of them. He never fails to deliver excellence: I have devoured his Misquoting Muhammad: The… Read More ›
The Prince
I have just finished reading The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. He wrote in the 16th century to a powerful Italian ruler to instruct him in the realpolitik of starcraft, ie how a ruler can keep power and avoid losing it…. Read More ›
Jesus contradicts Paul on the Jewish Law
Why this matters and its significance for Islam
Searing confessions of top New Testament scholar Dr Dale C. Allison
This is a no holes barred academic discussion of the Quest for the historical Jesus by one of the leading historians in the field Dr Dale C. Allison. Allison is Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological… Read More ›
Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty First Century
In 3 Minute Academic Sound bites I discuss the recent work of Professor Dale B. Martin of Yale University and why I believe it fails in its objective to bring together historical scholarship and orthodox Christian doctrines. Biblical Truths: The… Read More ›
