Islam
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Slouching Towards Mecca?
The author quotes the closing paragraph of Mark Lilla’s review of Houellebecq’s Submission, which reads the novel as being about France’s lost sense of self rather than immigration, and adds…
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Islam, ISIS and the Dream of the Blue Flower
Responding to Graeme Wood’s Atlantic argument that the Islamic State is Islamic, the author says it does not smear Muslims but notes ISIS acts have support in classical texts, then…
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Is Islam a Religion of the Book?
Responding to Razib Khan’s post, the author argues no religion is truly a ‘religion of the book’, since people remake religion as time demands, and so Islam is no more…
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An Atheist upgrades to Allah (via Jesus )
A comment on an interview with Reza Aslan on tradition, why al-Qaeda is not anti-modern and his own moves from Christianity to Islam, with the poster asking what led him…
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The Sahel – Islam's natural boundary
A short comment that the Sahel marks Islam’s natural boundary in Africa, with the Ethiopian highlands as the main Christian exception.
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Understanding the geographic context for Islam
The poster says an article’s geographic account fits his long view of Islam as a mercantile, arid faith whose borders track the pork line, and that Russia is a North…
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Why Islam Haunts India
The poster shares photographed pages from Robert Kaplan’s chapter on India, ‘Why Islam Haunts India’, calling it a must-read on subcontinental geopolitics.
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