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Here is a Newsday article on the exhibit America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far, at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, for which I was the lead academic advisor. It’s a good chance to shout out my friends from high school. “Our goal is to have children deal with differences in a healthy, positive way and encourage them to be inquisitive while exploring the world instead of running away from its differences,” Rashid said, an experience not so different from his years growing up in Elmont.  

Jihad Beyond Islam: open access book | Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist

Jihad Beyond Islam: open access book | Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist. I am pleased to inform you that my publisher Berg has decided to join the Social Science Open Access Repository and to make my first book, Jihad Beyond Islam(2006) available legally for download with no costs but strictly under the Creative Common License.

‘Many Americans Love Rumi…But They Prefer He Not Be Muslim’

Interview: ‘Many Americans Love Rumi…But They Prefer He Not Be Muslim’ – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010. Many Americans love Rumi for his ecstatic spirituality about divine love, but they prefer that he not be a Muslim, or at least no more than minimally. Therefore, most Rumi books are marketed to satisfy the wish for maximum mysticism and minimal Islam. Americans have little interest or sympathy for political Islam, but by reading even the most popularized Rumi books, Americans are learning about many traditional Muslim values and wisdom teachings. h/t Bibi

One thought on “Books on Religion”

  1. I recommend:
    Three to Get Married
    Simple Truths: Thinking Life Through
    The Seven Last Words
    Way to Happiness: An Inspiring Guide to Peace, Hope and Contentment
    Victory over Vice
    Peace of Soul
    The Dumb Ox
    Orthodoxy
    The everlasting Man
    to name a few

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