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There is no Hotoke (仏) except Allah?: How Japanese Muslims Attempted to Comprehend Divinity in Islam

By Naoki Yamamoto // January 19, 2023January 23, 2023

This article is an introduction to the debate over the Japanese translation of the word “Allah” used by Dr. Mujahid Matsuyama, one of Japan’s leading experts in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. Matusyma Yohei writes essays on…

How Can a Text Free a Person? In Appreciation of the Qur’an’s Co-translators

By Timur R. Yuskaev // September 19, 2019November 24, 2019

Some ten years ago, in the summer of 2009, I heard a striking phrase. At the end of a lengthy conversation, after a long pause, my informal teacher, named Bilal, said, “You know, I was…

[Book Review] Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition by Omid Safi | Reviewed by Cyrus Ali Zargar.

By Cyrus Ali Zargar // December 6, 2018January 15, 2019

Omid Safi. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018). 284 pages. $25.00 hardcover | Reviewed by Cyrus Zargar. Omid Safi’s Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic…