David S. Powers

On his book Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet

Cover Interview of September 04, 2009

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June 13, 2016

In reply to a question about al-kalala, the Qur’an itself at Q4: 176 takes the question to refer to a person who dies leaving no offspring (walad), giving some support to the traditional Muslim interpretation.

June 13, 2016

Does kalala at Q4: 176 in the Paris MS show the same evidence of tampering as at Q4: 12?

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[M]odern art still commonly refers to a rather narrow range of meaning and scope. It basically focuses on developments in Paris (Impressionism etc.) in the nineteenth century, and to selected Euro-American movements in the twentieth century (Cubism, Abstract Expressionism etc). But if we understand modernity as a socially transformative condition that was in force across much of the world from the nineteenth century on, how are we to understand artistic practices that were associated with these momentous changes?

Iftikhar Dadi,
Interview of March 26, 2012

The two world wars of the twentieth century were a product of the dislocations brought about of modernization in an environment where great power competition and the drive for hegemony were conducted primarily by violent means. Now that this era has passed in Europe and is receding in much of the Pacific rim, and hegemony achieved by force is no longer considered a legitimate ambition, the security requirements and fears of great powers should decline.

Richard Ned Lebow,
Interview of October 4, 2010