| Uncovering Early Islam |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:04 EST |
| The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), |
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| Chris Christie's Islam Problem |
| Tue, 1 May 2012 09:31:55 EST |
| A Quinnipiac poll in April showed Chris Christie the most popular potential Republican vice-presidential candidate, thanks to his budget cuts and standing up to government employee unions. But the governor of New Jersey has a problem, specifically an |
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| Islam's Cartoon Missionaries |
| Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:04:30 EST |
| Comic books as a method of missionizing for Islam (da'wa)? Yes. One year ago, Harvard University hosted a workshop to teach comic book artists how to address Americans' "unease with Islam and the Middle East." And later this week, Georgetown University |
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| Turkey's Military Capitulation Hits Home |
| Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:37:36 EST |
| "Retired Gen. Çevik Bir jailed in postmodern coup case" reads the headline in Today's Zaman, complete with a picture of a policeman accompanying Bir as he left a courthouse after being arrested. Apr. 26, 2012 update: The AKP geniuses have now decided |
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| It's Not Road Rage, It's Terrorism |
| Tue, 3 Apr 2012 12:15:40 EST |
| On February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli doctor of American origins, went to the mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and murdered 29 Muslims with an automatic weapon before being overwhelmed and himself killed. This massacre |
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| Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam |
| Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:49:23 EST |
| Keith Ellison and Andre Carson receive considerable attention as the first two Muslims to serve in the U.S. Congress. The novelty of their presence, however, should not obscure the fact that Congress includes other representatives, invariably on the left |
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| Israel's Arabs, Living a Paradox |
| Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:02:08 EST |
| Can Arabs, who make up one-fifth of Israel's population, be loyal citizens of the Jewish state? With this question in mind, I recently visited several Arab-inhabited regions of Israel (Jaffa, Baqa al-Gharbiya, Umm al-Fahm, Haifa, Acre, Nazareth, the |
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| Why I Am Not Writing About Iran |
| Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:05:35 EST |
| The president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel each gave major speeches on the Iranian nuclear threat and then they met for a two-hour meeting yesterday, with attendant statements – and yet my column today is on a book that appeared |
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| The Arabs as Seen Fifty Years Ago |
| Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:58:47 EST |
| "Once mellowed and moldering, the far-flung civilization of the Arabs is being swept today by invigorating winds of change. A fruitful kind of disorder is replacing the old fixed patterns of life." Those contemporary-sounding words were published in |
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| [Symposium on] The U.S. and Israel |
| Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:07:21 EST |
| Two premises shape my preferred U.S. policy toward Israel. Negatively, the two countries have the same enemies and suffer from the same problems coming out of the Middle East, notably WMD, wars, terrorism, piracy, anarchy, tyranny, refugees, drug |
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| Claiming Jerusalem is in the Koran |
| Wed, 7 Mar 2012 03:43:51 EST |
| Apologies for only learning of Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein, 2d ed. abridged (Long Island, New York: Masjid Dar-Al-Qur'an, 2003) nearly a decade after its publication, but it nonetheless bears notice, for two main reasons.First, how amusing |
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| Resettling the Mujahedeen-e Khalq of Iraq |
| Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:22:12 EST |
| Tragedy looms as Iraqi authorities threaten by April 30 forcibly to expel 3,400 Iranians, members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq. MeK members rightly fear for their lives if pushed across the border for the Iranian regime criminalizes membership in the MeK |
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| Four Down: Saleh No Longer Yemen's President? |
| Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:08:18 EST |
| Three Arab dictators-for-life lost power in 2011: Ben Ali of Tunisia on January 14, Mubarak of Egypt on February 11, and Qaddafi of Libya on October 20. Now, the first Arab dictator of 2012 seems to be down: Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen.Seems because his |
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| Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction |
| Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:24:50 EST |
| Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don't need to think about their own security but can |
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| "Eventually, All Humans Will Be Palestine Refugees" |
| Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:06:50 EST |
| Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees. The origins of this unique case, notes Nitza Nachmias of Tel Aviv |
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