Quran
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Sacred Texts and Jewish-Muslim Relations
In a series on Jewish-Muslim relations, Hamid Hussain compares the Tanakh and the Quran, which each faith holds as revelation, noting shared themes and narratives alongside real differences that interfaith…
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The Koran; a very short introduction
An old review, first written for the Pakistani magazine Herald in 2002, of Michael Cook’s The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. The poster judges it witty and informative even for…
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Religious books in Hotel rooms
Nachiketa recalls finding Bibles and Qurans in the rooms of Kenyan wildlife lodges, learns it is common in the United States, and wonders why scriptures are placed in hotels, contrasting…
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Three Graces of Islam
A two-line post calling Persian, Arabic and Urdu God’s new favourites and pointing to the pre-Islamic goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat named in Qur’an 53:19-20.
