Todd Lawson Journal of American Oriental Society (JAOS), Volume 122, Number 3, (July-Sept 2002), p. 658 This is a collection of articles in Qur’?nic studies by some of the most influential early pioneers in the field: N?ldeke’s famous article for the Britannica (9th edition, 1891); Caetani’s study of the “Uthm?nic recension tradition” (1915); Mingana’s: “Three…

“CyberMuslima” (Pseudonym) I intended this to be a short essay piece, a review of sorts pointing out the most grievous sections of this book. However, as I read on, looking for quotes to use, I found that I could neither highlight any one part of the book nor could I make it short. This book…

Since this book has come up as a topic, and I have read it, I thought, insha’allah, I’d write my impressions. I ordered the book sight unseen because I like reading sirah and I liked the title. Its kind of dramatic. Dashti appears to have been born Muslim but according to the translator’s introduction, it…

[i.e., “The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Qur’?n: A Contribution tothe Decipherment of the Qur’?nic Language] Fran?ois de Blois Appeared in Journal of Qur’anic Studies, Vol. V, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 92-97 The title of this book announces a new ‘reading’ of the Qur’an and the subtitle promises ‘a contribution to the decoding of the language…

M. Shahid Alam It would appear from the fulsome praise heaped by mainstream reviewers on Bernard Lewis’s most recent and well-timed book, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford University Press, 2002), that the demand for Orientalism has reached a new peak. America’s search for new enemies that began soon after the…

A Review of Judith Miller’s “God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East” The Nation, August 12/19, 1996 Judith Miller is a New York Times reporter much in evidence on talk shows and seminars on the Middle East. She trades in “the Islamic threat” — her particular mission has been to advance the…