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“The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon” is Available Now on Amazon

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February 22, 2023

Bilal Muhammad is a Fellow and Research Assistant at the Berkeley Institute for Islamic Studies. He is also an MA Candidate at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, B.Ed at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and Honors BA in Political Science and History at the University of Toronto. He is an educator and researcher based in Toronto, Canada.

The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon is Available on Amazon

Order the hardcover or Kindle version of “The Blue Yonder” on Amazon, available now.

“The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon” is an anthology of articles on Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Confucian themes written by a variety of scholars at the Berkeley Institute for Islamic Studies. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach to cultivate historical literacy of the world’s great religions. The Blue Yonder explores a range of topics from the historical Jesus, to Mariology, New Testament studies, the Early Church, the history of the Jahiliyya, the hadith tradition, Muhammad in Judaism, Hindu studies, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, Malcolm X and the NOI, and Confucianism. This book offers the thorough and exhaustive rigour of contemporary academia whilst engaging moral questions from a confessional perspective.

All articles included will remain on the website for free. Proceeds will go to BLIIS for further Islamic and interfaith research.

Articles from the website include:

  1. Some Thoughts on Academic Language and the Cult of Neutrality by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi
  2. Hail Mary, Mother of Christ by Bilal Muhammad
  3. A Green Christmas: Jesus’ Birthdate in the Islamic Tradition by Bilal Muhammad
  4. Muslim Perspectives on St. Paul by Bilal Muhammad
  5. The Apostles, the Early Church, and Islam by Bilal Muhammad
  6. The Didache: A First Century Witness to Non-Pauline Christology by Paul Williams
  7. The Evolution of Christology in the New Testament by Paul Williams
  8. St. John Chrysostom and Sexual Disobedience in Early Christian Marriage by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi
  9. The Lord’s Prayer in Islam by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi
  10. Glimpses of Christ in ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib by Bilal Muhammad
  11. Positive Accounts of Muḥammad in the Jewish Tradition by Bilal Muhammad
  12. Planting a Tree in the End Times by Bilal Muhammad and Jesse Davis
  13. Callers to Monotheism and Prophethood in Jahiliyya by Bilal Muhammad
  14. Plato’s Academy, the Prophet’s Mosque, and the Future of Education by Bilal Muhammad
  15. What Traditional Muslims Should Learn from the Nation of Islam by Bilal Muhammad
  16. Malcolm X and the Twelve Imams of the Shiites by Dr. John Andrew Morrow
  17. The Past, Present and Future of Muslim Scholarship on Hinduism by Dr. David Coolidge
  18. A Community’s Integration Within Regional Folk Tradition by Anwit Shahi
  19. Sri Lanka: The Axis Mundi and the Cradle of Mankind by Bilal Muhammad
  20. Annotated Bibliography of Neo-Confucianism by Yehia Amin
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Published Date: February 22, 2023
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Bilal Muhammad

Bilal Muhammad is a Fellow and Research Assistant at the Berkeley Institute for Islamic Studies. He is also an MA Candidate at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, B.Ed at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and Honors BA in Political Science and History at the University of Toronto. He is an educator and researcher based in Toronto, Canada.
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