The Uncreated Word
Islam fought a fifteen-year inquisition over whether the Quran is created, and a Christian monk posed the decisive dilemma a century earlier. What the createdness controversy opens up for a conversation about John 1.
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What Sharia Actually Is
Sharia, fiqh, the five law schools, the five ruling categories, and the real Pew numbers: a precise, sourced answer to what the word means before anyone argues about it.
The Many Islams
Sunni, Shia, Sufi, Salafi, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Quranist, cultural, reformer. A sourced map of Islam's internal divisions, and why the fates of its dissidents show where each tradition's center of gravity sits.