The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon

[Qa'im]

I am happy to announce the release of the new book! “The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon”

This is an anthology of articles on Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Confucian themes written by a variety of scholars at the Berkeley Institute for Islamic Studies. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach to cultivate historical literacy of the world's great religions.

The Blue Yonder explores a range of topics from the historical Jesus, to Mariology, New Testament studies, the Early Church, the history of Jahiliyya, the hadith tradition, Muhammad (s) in Judaism, Hindu studies, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, Malcolm X and the NOI, and Confucianism. This book offers the thorough and exhaustive rigour of contemporary academia whilst engaging moral questions from a confessional perspective.

All proceeds go to the non-profit organization for further Islamic and interfaith research

Table of Contents

1. Some Thoughts on Academic Language and the Cult of Neutrality by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi

2. Hail Mary, Mother of Christ by Bilal Muhammad

3. A Green Christmas: Jesus’ Birthdate in the Islamic Tradition by Bilal Muhammad

4. Muslim Perspectives on St. Paul by Bilal Muhammad

5. The Apostles, the Early Church, and Islam by Bilal Muhammad

6. The Didache: A First Century Witness to Non-Pauline Christology by Paul Williams

7. The Evolution of Christology in the New Testament by Paul Williams

8. St. John Chrysostom and Sexual Disobedience in Early Christian Marriage by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi

9. The Lord’s Prayer in Islam by Dr. Taymaz Tabrizi

10. Glimpses of Christ in ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib by Bilal Muhammad

11. Positive Accounts of Muḥammad in the Jewish Tradition by Bilal Muhammad

12. Planting a Tree in the End Times by Bilal Muhammad and Jesse Davis

13. Callers to Monotheism and Prophethood in Jahiliyya by Bilal Muhammad

14. Plato’s Academy, the Prophet’s Mosque, and the Future of Education by Bilal Muhammad

15. What Traditional Muslims Should Learn From the Nation of Islam by Bilal Muhammad

16. Malcolm X and the Twelve Imams of the Shiites by Dr. John Andrew Morrow

17. The Past, Present and Future of Muslim Scholarship on Hinduism by Dr. David Coolidge

18. A Community’s Integration Within Regional Folk Tradition by Anwit Shahi

19. Sri Lanka: The Axis Mundi and the Cradle of Mankind by Bilal Muhammad

20. Annotated Bibliography of Neo-Confucianism by Yehia Amin

I’m also happy to say that an electronic version of all of the articles are available *for free* on the BLIIS website.

Order the hardcover or Kindle version of “The Blue Yonder” on Amazon, available now

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRJFJGX5

 

[Hameedeh]

On 1/2/2023 at 6:32 PM, Qa'im said:

I’m also happy to say that an electronic version of all of the articles are available *for free* on the BLIIS website.

Order the hardcover or Kindle version of “The Blue Yonder” on Amazon, available now

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRJFJGX5

Salam, everyone. The Blue Yonder: The Search for a Shared Horizon is excellent research. IF you click on the link to amazon, click on the hardcover book option, then click on "Look inside" to read parts of the book. The back cover of the book says: The goal of this work is to create historical and moral literacy using the tools of modern academia. 

[realizm]

My respect for the publication.

I like the orientation of the topic, and it looks like the organization into not too long chapters makes it easily readable. 

[ShiaChat Mod]

On 1/2/2023 at 6:32 PM, Qa'im said:

Order the hardcover or Kindle version of “The Blue Yonder” on Amazon, available now

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRJFJGX5

 

If you have a designated charity set up at amazon, you can go through the smile.amazon link in your account to order the book and get a little bit donated to your charity..

Or use this link to order "The Blue Yonder" before February 20, when the smile amazon charity program will end. https://a.co/cR7KGV5 

[Qa'im]

Now available in paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTRPGLSL/