I recently set up a website to promote the book Transcending Jerusalem by Peter Stockton. In this book, Peter Stockton, from his perspective as a Muslim, reflects on this troubled history. Hurt by tribalism, idolatry, and human egotism, the city of David, Solomon, Jesus and Muhammad seems to lie at the epicentre of a cosmic drama. Stockton suggests that if Jerusalem is the heart of the world, and that the health of that heart lies only in fidelity to God,…
Tim Winter edits The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology Synopsis – This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions which are of abiding…
Author G. Willow Wilson gives an interview on the Graphic Fiction Blog about her graphic novel Cairo, I haven’t read it yet, just ordering my copy now.