In The Islamic Jesus the author, Mustafa Akyol, attempts to bridge the gap between Christian and Muslim understandings of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him). In this book Akyol reveals surprising new truths about “Islam in the context of the first Muslims and the early origins of Christianity”. Muslims, just like the first Jewish Christians, see Jesus not as...
Dr Shiraz Maher delves into the ideological and religious nature of the Salafi-Jihadi movement. Maher attempts to address the poorly understood intellectual ferment of global Jihadism. He is a Reader in Non-State Actors within the Department of War Studies at Kings College, London. Maher also serves as Director of the International Centre for the Study...
Yasir Qadhi serves as resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Centre in the United States, he is also dean of the Islamic Seminary of America. In this work Qadhi provides a systematic introduction to Salafism. The Salafi movement has been wrongfully condemned in much of the media and the mere mention of the movement invokes...
In his 2013 book Zealot, Reza Aslan lays out the case for Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) as revolutionary. For Aslan, Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) was a highly political and even eschatological figure. Aslan’s Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) seeks to be a traditional Messiah within Judaism and overthrow the Roman Empire in the...