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DANI RABINOWITZ | Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight years of Spanish Jewry’s golden era, was a medieval polymath who...

GABRIEL REYNOLDS | Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein that refer to the revelation given to Muhammad...

GILLES DORIVAL | Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante (LXX)...

DANIEL MAJCHROWICZ | This is how the Indian poet Altaf Husain Hali described the first generations of Muslims in an Urdu poem from the 1870s...

ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...

GEORGE M. MARSDEN | At the same time that faith in individual autonomy and the authority of science was standard fare in so much of midcentury American culture...

JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER | As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged to a mainline Protestant denomination...

JODI MAGNESS | Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68 CE by members of a Jewish sect who deposited the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves surrounding the site...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for violating community standards of decency?...

ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS | This entire Red Sea rim is dotted with the ruins of ancient and medieval ports...

SAMUEL THROPE | In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town...

EVA MROCZEK | The argument, brandished vigorously from the first page to the last, is that while “Jesus’ teaching was certainly innovative,” it cannot be divorced from the Judaism of his time...