Religion Prof & Historian. Islam, Religious Propagation, S. Asia, Middle East. Books & other stuff. GenAI hater. Posts mine. 13.1, 26.2 🏃
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“…the issue of Naik’s extradition appears to have been effectively shelved.”
Which means he’s doing fine, sheltered by Malaysia, where he remains popular and from where he continues to beam his da‘wa around the world. Just as I predicted 10 years ago 1/
thediplomat.com/2026/09/why-…
Malaysia keeps conservative Muslim voters at home happy by sheltering Naik. Naik benefits by staying in the headlines, and his treatment by India gives purchase to his “I’m a noble sufferer for Islam” narrative. Exactly as I predicted👇
openthemagazine.com/columns/…
Yes, and it’s important to add that doing da‘wa, as most Muslims understand it, does not involve “imposing.” The Arabic word itself means “inviting,” and an invitation is, by definition, something that can be refused.
"A large share of the world’s roughly two billion Muslims simply wish to practice their faith, without any interest in imposing it. Such voluntary piety doesn't violate or threaten freedom."
My response to a recent criticism by Daniel Brubaker in @FDRLST:
cato.org/blog/sharia-freedom…
So even quite vigorous da‘wa, or Islamic mission/preaching, built on strongly exclusivist views, is not a threat to freedom. In a free society, religious actors should have the right to make their case, and their hearers should have the right to accept or reject that case.
Not a prescriptive argument, but for a descriptive account of how the majority Islamic mission simply is of this type — invitational not impositional — see Part II of [coughs awkwardly,but boldly]:
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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An Egyptian convert from Islam to Christianity is facing persecution.
Which is unconscionable: people should be free to accept or leave any religion, including Islam, without fear.
It is also absurd: religious coercion cannot create sincere faith. It can only create hypocrisy.
Alright Muslim-Christian Relations nerds, has anyone written a critical historical biography of Samuel Zwemer? Thanks in advance for any leads.
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This looks like an incredible resource. Congratulations on the publication of your article. I could make books always are so expensive! 😳
This obv deserves almost no attention, since it’s all based on debunked nonsense, but…
why is it only the 2020 election that was, or 2026 that will be, “rigged”? Why not 2016 and 2024? Oh yeah…
My contributor copy finally arrived (after a little address snag with @OxUniPress)!
This incredible 1,115 page resource is one that all you scholars out there are going to want to have your libraries purchase asap. #islam #islamicstudies
I’m obv happy about my chapter and the Handbook as a whole, but it’s equally gratifying, maybe more so even, to see one’s work cited in other chapters written by colleagues, as in Timol’s excellent chapter on the Tablighi Jamaat
Congrats and looks terrific! I look at this story at some length in my book on da'wa, showing how it has created a precedent among later da'wa practitioners, for whom the recitation of the Qur'an to non-Muslims remains a valid, powerful da'wa strategy.
My article "Weeping Christians and the First Hijra to Ethiopia" is available Open Access 🙂 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Unspeakably horrifying. G is not “just a tool.” And this on not just a soc media website.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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Again, there are good reasons to leave this place, this among many others.
wired.com/story/grok-is-stil…
My favorite line in this excellent critique is where Bérubé begins his dissection of the report’s lame attempts to sound balanced:
“But you know how when someone says ‘I don’t want to say X, but,’ the only important part of the sentence is the part that comes after the ‘but’?”
This is a devastating take down..."Report on the State of a Report (on the Humanities)" pghrev.com/report-on-the-sta…
