Sam Shamoun and Lying By Shabir Ally published (with permission) September 30, 2015 During my debate with David Wood on ABNSAT, Sam Shamoun called in to challenge one of my statements. According to my statement, Robert Gundry said that the… Read More ›
Books
The Paradox of British Islam – Abdal Hakim Murad
A brilliant discussion of Islam, The English Church, Reformation, Catholicism, the ever evolving kaleidoscope of British values, and much, much, more. An intellectual feast! Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad’s Lecture was given at the University of Oslo in 2011. A transcript of… Read More ›
Refuting ISIS
This book is all the rage amongst Muslims at the moment. The author is renowned Syrian scholar Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi. He has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world for the past five years (theMuslim500.com). It… Read More ›
Lessons to learn when comparing the Quranic and New Testament manuscripts
The following article has just been posted on the Facebook page of Bart D. Ehrman, a leading American New Testament scholar. Ehrman’s work focuses on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity. Those… Read More ›
The most popular book of all time isn’t Harry Potter
Today’s London Metro has this story: ‘It’s not exactly a ripping yarn, but the Quran is the most popular book of all time. The religious text has been translated into 50 different languages, has nearly 400 editions and more than… Read More ›
Professor Jonathan AC Brown seminar London, today
A very sweet note to me inside his latest book..
Desiderius Erasmus had it about right
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and theologian
I want them all!
Click on: Little Black Classics
Paris bookstore, 1904
Paris bookstore, 1904, Tavik František Šimon. Czech (1877 – 1942)
On my bookshelf & still to read..
by all accounts a brilliant classic and must read
Middlemarch
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a… Read More ›
I’m currently reading this tasty morsel
I haven’t read a book like this for some time – now I crave a theoretical perspective that can demystify and make sense of the economic and political systems of the world. This book, by a professor at Kings College… Read More ›
‘I did not go to heaven’: Paralyzed boy admits he made up best-selling book about how he ascended to paradise and met Jesus after car wreck
A boy whose tale of dying and going to heaven after a car crash that became a best-selling book has admitted to making the whole thing up. Alex Malarkey, now 16, lay in a coma for two months and was… Read More ›
Trouble in paradise
Delivered to my office today: an exiting new work by one of the most popular philosophers of our time.
A hadith
The Prophet (pbuh) is reported to have said, “In the times in which you are living, anyone who abandons a tenth of what he is commanded will perish; but a time is coming when anyone who does a tenth of… Read More ›
Recommended Reading
This is simply an amazing book: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart