Author: John Esposito

Excerpt: Social customs such as seclusion (purdah) – originally meant to give honor and distinction to women – hardened into what was believed to be religious precepts and then stringently applied to women in all circumstances.

Author: Hamza Tzortzis

Excerpt: Since nothing is the absence of all things, including any type of causal condition, then something could not arise from nothing.

Authors: Nazir Khan, Tesneem Alkiek and Safiah Chowdhury

Excerpt: Qur’anic verses are not to be interpreted in isolation while ignoring the fundamental values of Islam established in other Qur’anic passages and the life of the Prophet ﷺ.

Author: Mohammad Elshinawy

Book length: 231 pages

Excerpt: Heraclius: “I asked you whether you ever accused him of lying before he stated what he stated [about prophethood]. You replied in the negative, and I know that he would not refrain from lying about others and then lie about God.”

Author: Garrett Davidson

Book length: 333 pages

Excerpt: Verbatim copying of books without a process of oral/aural verification was viewed with extreme suspicion by most early hadith scholars and was generally not accepted.

Author: Muhammad Abdel Haleem

Book length: 240 pages

Excerpt: Muslims are regularly reminded of the consequences of their actions since the Quran does not isolate the discussion of rewards and punishments to one chapter.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Book length: 213 pages

Excerpt: BF Skinner’s experiment proved that an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.

Author: Rushda N

Excerpt: It is one thing to interpret Quranic verses in a scientific context as one of its many possible readings; it is quite another to use such a reading as a definitive basis for arguments of miraculousness.

Author: Emad Hamdeh

Excerpt: Extracting laws from the Quran and Sunnah is not as simple
as reading one piece of evidence (dalīl), rather it requires that
one take all evidence from the Quran and hadith into
consideration.

Author: Abdullah bin Hamid Ali

Excerpt: Al-Nawawi: Effeminate men are of two types: One of them is created that way; there is no blame on this type. The second type of effeminate man is the one who becomes that way; this is the one who is deemed blameworthy.