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Ibrahim

A Common Word | EP 7- Younus Mirza with Rita George-Tvrtkovic

September 26, 2025

When I started my career, I was interested in the figure of Abraham/Ibrahim and how he could be a bridge figure between Christians, Jews and Muslims. However, as I wrote my book on “The Bible and…

Was Abraham Crazy? Understanding His Attempted Sacrifice through Ibn Hazm’s Theory of Prophecy

By Younus Y. Mirza // July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

When I was speaking at the Jewish Museum of Berlin on the Story of Abraham’s/Ibrāhīm’s sacrifice in the Islamic tradition, a protestant minister on one of the panels stood up and passionately argued that Abraham/Ibrāhīm…