By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 July 2025
How Much Responsibility Does the Syrian State Have for the Alawi Massacres?
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Roman Eastern Foederati and Arab Monotheism Before Islam
No Name, No Past, No Trace: The Strange Case of “Peter Bergmann”
Assessing the Historicity of Abu Bakr, Islam’s First Caliph
Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)
America Shows There Is No Need To Fear Iran
Islamic State Has Alternative Suggestions for the Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah. It’s Jihad.
Israel Moves to Disarm Iran
Was Islam’s Ka’ba Always in Mecca?
A Note on the Mu’tazilites and the Office of the Caliph
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 June 2025
Muslim belief is that the Qur’an is “uncreated” (ghayr makhluq). While the Qur’an was revealed to Muhammad over twenty-three years (610-32 AD), the “speech of God” (kalam Allah) in these revelations had existed co-eternally with God. This was once a point of serious dispute in Islamic theology, and the outcome of that debate was an important waymarker in the development of Islam.
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