"Most approaches to violence or its opposite in Islam try to establish that the religion of the Prophet is one or the other, and thus get nowhere. Avoiding this trap, Abu-Nimer has given us a wide-ranging and thoroughly researched study that will be of interest to scholars and of use to peace builde[...]

No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. "In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror", numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Grif[...]