‘The search for God is happening largely as a search for meaning without the pressure of family life or cultural traditions’
The former prime minister of France explains that Israel fights in Gaza not only to defend itself, but to protect the values and security of a civilization under siege by an army of cowards and negationists
The recent chaos is not an antisemitic intifada—it’s something worse
Why we’re fighting our political battles like religious wars
How the pro-Islamism and anti-Zionism of today’s left trace their origins to French colonialists who hated Jews and turned Algeria into a reactionary fantasy land
Campus Week: How a toxic postcolonial, postmodern discourse essentializes Muslim women into only their covering
An American visitor with an agenda fearmongers about London’s Muslims
Elhanan Miller hopes to broker Middle East peace, one YouTube subscriber at a time
Inside a French courtroom where Muslim victims are shamefully abandoned by the French state, the French left, and their own community
Two new studies of Islam portray recent outbursts of coordinated violence and oppression not as a reaction to Western liberalism but instead as fundamental to the religion itself
Simple security measures forbidden in Jerusalem are cool in Teheran, Damascus, and Cairo.
A 17th-century ‘holy apostasy’: like Christ’s crucifixion, the fulfillment of a messianic prophecy?
Now of all times, we should listen to what they have to say
Patricia Crone, the late scholar of Islam, fearlessly and rigorously explored the origins of Iran’s influential and mystical version of the religion
The ‘Amen’ project, part of Jerusalem’s Mekudeshet Festival, will host Muslim, Jewish, and Christian prayers services this weekend, along with a bevy of other cross-cultural events
In his new book ‘What Is Islam?,’ the late scholar Shahab Ahmed asks if it’s time to return to an idea of the religion that prizes more than just the Quran
‘Europe’s gift to Islam’ was born in Austria-Hungary 116 years ago this week. His ideas on the intersection of politics and religion are more relevant than ever.
How Western intellectuals turn themselves into the enemies of an entire class of liberal writers from Muslim backgrounds
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