The Koran

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

The Lost Archive by Andrew Higgins, The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2008
(via Joseph Bottum at First Things)

The Islamic Optimist by Malise Ruthven, review of In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad by Tariq Ramadan, To Be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam by Tariq Ramadan, Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity by Tariq Ramadan, translated by Said Amghar, and The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson, The New York Review of Books, August 16, 2007

Encountering Islam by Algis Valiunas, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2007

Islam and Western Democracies by Cardinal George Pell, April 2, 2006

Bonfire of the Pieties: Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion, by Amir Taheri, Opinion Journal, February 8, 2006

In Perspective: What's the Difference Between Shi'ah and Sunni? by Todd Hertz, Christianity Today, April 30, 2003

Islamic Faith in An Age of Realism by Thomas J. O'Shaughnessy, S.J., The Catholic World, February 1942