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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith
For well over a millennium Muslims have revered Mecca as the site of their holiest shrine, the Kaaba. And until recently Western scholarship always accepted the traditional Muslim origins narrative, which says that was where Muhammad began, in Arabia. But…
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For well over a millennium Muslims have revered Mecca as the site of their holiest shrine, the Kaaba. And until recently Western scholarship always accepted the traditional Muslim origins narrative, which says that was where Muhammad began, in Arabia. But…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized
“No one through all the centuries of Christian missions to Moslems has deserved better than Samuel Zwemer the designation of Apostle to Islam.” So wrote the great mission historian, Kenneth Scott Latourette, in the introduction to J. Christy Wilson’s biography…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism
The speaker at a large Bible conference, advocating for adherence to the fundamentals of faith and seeking to stir controversy, commented that there were missionaries who actually used “Allah,” the Muslim name for God, in their Christian witness. The statement…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion
The Muslim World (TMW) is one of the leading academic journals covering Islam worldwide. Strange it would call its own history “bigoted”. It was founded in 1911 by Samuel Zwemer, a founding father of Protestant missions in engagement with the…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice
Islamic teaching has always held that Jesus (Issa) was not God. He was simply a good man and one of the most esteemed prophets of Allah. There are, however, several statements in the Quran and Traditions that suggest something…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East
“The perseverance of small, powerless drops of water dripping on the same rock, in the same place, ends by breaking the rock. In the same way, the power of faith with perseverance can break walls of hatred, of rejection, and…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East, Sunni & Shi’a
The world’s Muslims fall into two major camps, Sunni and Shia, sometimes likened to Christianity’s Catholics and Protestants. But the similarity is superficial. In terms of the world’s total Muslim population, Sunnis and Shias disagree over what percentage each group…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East, Sunni & Shi’a, Samuel Zwemer's Books
The missionary among Muslims (to whom the Cross of Christ is a stumbling-block and the atonement foolishness) is driven daily to deeper meditation on this mystery of redemption and to a stronger conviction that here is the very heart of…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East, Sunni & Shi’a, Samuel Zwemer's Books, Mission and Evangelism
At the mention of the name Francis of Assisi, images of a peaceful, eccentric, medieval monk who loved to talk to animals may come to mind. But he was also a Christ-loving, innovative missionary to Muslims during the Crusades. Here’s…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East, Sunni & Shi’a, Samuel Zwemer's Books, Mission and Evangelism, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine
For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their…
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Topic: History & Politics, Quran & Hadith, Uncategorized, Comparative Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Faith & Practice, Middle East, Sunni & Shi’a, Samuel Zwemer's Books, Mission and Evangelism, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East
Although “realignment” has been the word of the month, it seems, in the world of Middle Eastern socio-political analysis, a likelier descriptor might be that of “making explicit that which has up to now remained implicit.” While US-Israeli relations and…
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The Unseen Reality: A Panoramic View of Spiritual Warfare
