John Esposito's latest book, The Future of Islam, will be available in February 2010 from Oxford University Press.
The Future of Islam
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Thomas Friedman taken to task
At the Huffington Post John O. Voll and John Esposito rebut in no uncertain terms Thomas L. Friedman's most recent…
An Islamic civil war?
In his op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times, Thomas Friedman made a number of astute remarks about the current…
Swiss minarets and American self-righteousness?
At the Scoop, Courtney Bender analyzes the American media's editorial treatment of the Swiss minaret ban.
Does Europe have a Muslim problem?
In the New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven reads Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam,…
Early Islam: the mystic tide
In part four of a five part series at 3 Quarks Daily, Namit Arora charts the development of Sufism from…
Teaching Islam in high school
At the Weekly Standard, Stephen Schwartz writes on recent changes in the ways American textbooks represent Islam.
Islamic finance undergoes test in Dubai
In the New York Times, Heather Timmons reports on the looming debt crisis in Dubai and the questions that it…
Swiss democracy
With a Muslim constituency estimated to be between four and six percent of its total population, Switzerland is hardly in…
Turkey, Islam, and the EU
At Contexts Magazine, Jeffrey C. Dixon offers a variety of resources for understanding the controversy over Turkey’s application to the…