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Bilal Muhammad reflects on Plato's Crito and the social contract in Islam.[...]
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Insights from Bilal Muhammad about what happened between Jesus and Muhammad's prophetic careers.[...]
An early Christian document giving us a look at a pre-Nicaean group's view of Jesus son of Mary.[...]
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Despite the influence of Sharīf al-Murtaḍā’s Amālī, the paratextual features of its manuscript copies are seldom discussed. This paper compares such features in two 17th and 19th-century manuscripts. Abstract A number of Sharīf [...]
Numerous studies of Mamlūk books congeal around luxury manuscripts. Doris Behrens-Abouseif’s monograph offers a new window into the production and reception of ordinary books in the Mamlūk world.[...]
The relationship between Malcolm X and the Twelve Imams of Ahl al-Bayt has so far been little-known even though it may have shaped a significant aspect of Malcolm's religious and political worldview.[...]