Call to Prayer

Check out this video that I posted a few days ago on YouTube. The audio portion is a recording of me reciting the Islamic call to prayer (adhan), and the video is a slide show of recent and historic photos of Cape Breton Island, where I live. At the end of the video, I provide a shot of the covers of my two books on the Qur'an, as well as the url for my home page, so that you can get more information about me and my work.
My new book Women, War & Hypocrites is now available from Amazon.com (USA), .ca (Canada), .co.uk (United Kingdom) and .de (Germany). Basically, the book describes how to approach reading the English text of the Qur'an to gain insight into the way in which matters pertaining to women (e.g., marriage, inheritance, hijab and wife beating), war (e.g., killing, battle, jihad and terrorism) and hypocrites (e.g., People of the Book, intoxication and the crucifixion of Jesus) are covered, especially in the fourth surah (chapter) of the Qur'an, known as The Women. Rather than attempt to tell you what the Qur'an says about these matters, I try to help you to develop your own understanding of the text.

Available Soon

The publisher has uploaded the content and cover files to Lightning Source, and a proof copy of my new book, Women, War & Hypocrites: Studying the Qur'an, from Cape Breton University Press, should be arriving for approval at the first of the week. If everything looks okay, the book will be available from Amazon and other web-based retailers in about one week's time. Copies will make their way to conventional bookstores over the next month or so. If you haven't seen my earlier book, Reading the Qur'an in English: An Introductory Guide, published by Cape Breton University Press in 2009, you might want to check it out.