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Tag Archives: Islam
Old Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
I saw before me what an empire which spreads beyond its legitimate boundaries must do to its subjects. It cannot spread its own life over the conquered areas, for life cannot travel too far from its sources, and it blights … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Byzantium, Constantiople, former Yugoslavia, Islam, Kosovo, Milutin, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Turkey, Rebecca West, Serbia, Stefan Dushan, Turkey, Yugoslavia
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Garry Wills’ Qur’an (Part One)
Is Islam as American as apple pie? Both are early imports from Asia Minor – Islam from the Arabian Peninsula by way of Africa and Iberia, apples from southern Kazakhstan by way of Europe – that have grown deep roots … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory
Tagged Denise Spellberg, Estavanico, Garry Wills, Harold Bloom, Islam, Islam in the Americas, Islamic art, laila lalami, Moorish Science Temple of America, Nation of Islam, Qur'an, religion, religions freedom, religious tolerance, Thomas Jefferson, tolerance, Western Canon
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Belief from the inside out
Carla Power’s Pulitizer Prize-shortlisted If the Oceans Were Ink, an outsider’s meditation on The Holy Qur’an with the help of a learned Islamic scholar, signals a subtle but seismic shift in our intellectual world. It joins other unmistakable indications that mostly secular Western … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy, Uncategorized
Tagged Books, Carla Power, faith, interfaith, Islam, Muslims, politics, Qur'an, religion, Umma
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Islam and the West, a Positive Approach
Today I published an article on the protests seen in the Muslim world over the controversial anti-Islamic video that went live in August. My article follows a previous post but expands on my work in public diplomacy and public opinion … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Afghanistan, bashar al assad, Beghazi, Books, Bosnia, Holy Koran, Innocence of Muslims, Islam, islamic world, Lebanon, muslim world, NATO, politics, propaganda, Prophet Muhammad, Public Diplomacy, Qur'an, religion, Samuel Huntington, Syria, West
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James Thomas Snyder 