We are all children of Abraham, and I believe the historic progress in our region is a progress of dialogue – between Muslims ...

While reading scripture this week, I pondered our propensity to dehumanize those who suffer, actively through torture or passively through our indifference. Some stories are so familiar — rote and ...

Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a ...

​A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur’an 2:124, & Genesis 16:1-16 9:9-21) and calling on ...

The Torah focuses on Isaac’s life more than Ishmael’s so it is not unexpected that Genesis 22 is all about Abraham and Isaac. The Qur’an hints at a solution to the question of the son’s name.