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Articles by Karen Taliaferro
Opening the Mind
It is rare to find in a single work a carefully documented intellectual history of Islam as well as a cri de coeur for contemporary reforms—or at least it is rare to find both tasks done well. Mustafa Akyol’s Reopening Muslim Minds, however, impressively achieves both feats with substance and elegance in a work that deserves to be acclaimed and widely read.
Overcoming the Dilemma of Religious Liberty
Stained Glass window depicting Saint Thomas Aquinas (122... more To have one’s book, much less one’s first book, reviewed by a scholar of the stature of Steven Grosby is no small honor. Whatever Professor Grosby’s ultimate judgment of the work, it is flattering that he would take the time to read it.
Religious Liberty, Natural Law, and Liberalism
There is a pressing need to reconsider one of the rights protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, the free exercise of religion, and manifestly so ever since the 1879 Supreme Court decision of Reynolds v. United States that upheld the prosecution of Mormons for bigamy in the then territory of Utah.
The Sunni-Shi‘a Split: Political and Religious
It is no great secret that coverage of Islam tends to favor Sunni over Shi‘a Islam, a trend that is puzzling in its persistence given geopolitical concerns of the past decade (indeed, of the past 40 years). Even in the academy, a glance at the Middle East Studies Association’s latest annual conference yields a total of six out of around 1000 total papers with “Shi‘a” or “Shi‘i” in the abstracts (though this is an admittedly imperfect measure).
Between Gods and Men: Natural Law and Religious Pluralism
During an afternoon tea break at a small conference in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, my Muslim Berber colleagues and I managed to arrive at the thorny topic of women’s roles in society. One of these colleagues posed the blunt question to me whether women and men were equal in American society. I answered that they were.
Ibn Rushd and Natural Law: Mediating Divine Law and Human Law
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