This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 as well as other book prizes. I read this book in 2003. It is a tour de…
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Day: March 14, 2026
Prophet Muhammad—Part 1
I have read two biographies of the Prophet Muhammad over the years. For Ramadan 2026, I am reading two recently published biographies. Muhammad and the…
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Cairo Geniza—Part 1
The term “Cairo Geniza,” to the initiated, refers to a repository of priceless ancient texts found in 1896 in a synagogue in Cairo. These texts…
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Lord Denning The Judge and the Law, 1984
Lord Devlin, in an insightful foreword to this book of essays on Lord Denning’s contribution to the law, said, in the beginning paragraph, that there…
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