Why Do Pious People Suffer?
For many people, especially in today’s world, it is very hard to reconcile the personal, sometimes seemingly intolerable,…
Judaism
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Religions and Economic Justice
Economic inequality refers to the disparity of wealth or income between individuals or between the different groups in…
The Shared Beliefs of Judaism and Islam
It is unfortunate that in today’s world many Jews and Muslims see themselves as diametrically opposed to one…
Folk Religion Can Sometimes Grow Piety
In the modern world, large scale emigration has brought many Muslims into close contact with other Muslims from…
Istanbul: Poverty and Wealth in the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Poverty and Wealth in the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamFatih University,…
The Convivencia in Islamic Spain
For a period of almost four centuries, when Medieval Spain was ruled by the Moors, the believers in…
Fasting in Abrahamic Faiths
“O you who believe! Prescribed for you is the Fast, as it was prescribed for those before you,…
The Medicine for This Sickness: A Reaction to the Recent Violence and Killings in Nigeria
These days, we are witnessing a kind of violence never before heard of in our land. Young men…
An Opportunity to Heal and Make Whole
How can anyone residing in the United States, or for that matter living in any other part of…
Fasting on Ramadan and Yom Kippur
I am a Reform rabbi who has been studying Islam for more than 50 years. Reform Judaism is…
A Reform Rabbi Learns from Muhammad
All Muslims know that the Qur’an often refers to the “people of the book” and their prophets. In…
The Search for Truth
Truth is to believe and to believe is to see the truth. Sometimes the truth is behind walls,…
The Battle for God
ABSTRACT: Armstrong explores the fundamentalist movements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the 1500s to the early 1990s.…