09.29.07
History of Islam - Week 6
A lot of interesting things noted in this week’s readings and lectures.
A book recommendation from DrB: Race and Slavery in the Middle East by British historian Brent Lewis.
Further, on the topic of slavery, DrB says that Mauritania just abolished last month!
This map used in DrB’s lecture. Which led me to this photo essay and this article, “Does the Koran Condone Killing?”
“Al-Zarqawi,” says Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Western and Islamic law at UCLA, “searches for the trash that everyone threw out centuries ago and declares the trash to be Islam.”