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This post will be a review and expansion of Safwat Marzouk’s chapter, “Interrogating Identity: A Christian Egyptian Reading of the Hagar-Ishmael Traditions,” in Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South. This article can be examined through the lens of what scholars of religion call “lived religion.” Lived religion refers to religion as…
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The Second Message of Islam reflects the thought of the Sudanese reformer and scholar Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ṭāhā. Ṭāhā was executed by the former president of Sudan, Jaʿfar Numayrī, on January 18, 1985. The book opens with an introduction by the translator, ʿAbdullāh Aḥmad An-Naʿīm, a prominent scholar of Islamic law and human rights. In the…