Best Selling Books by Robert Byrd

The story of Prince Theseus and the trials that befall him when he vows to become a hero.

How smart can humans really be? According to a panel of expert canines, we''re awfully confusing! We ignore the fact that we have a big water bowl in the bathroom, and don''t even re-eat our vomit! Follow along and see why our pets might think we''re a little silly.

Muslim heresiographers present the medieval rationalist school of theology known as the Muʻtazila as heretics, while modern Western and modernist Muslim scholarship almost invariably present the Muʻtazila as the original free-thinkers of Islam. The result is a polarized view of the Muʻtazili tradition tradition; Islamists view the Muʻtazila as a heresy best forgotten while modernists, Muslim and Western, as historical proof of Islam''s essentially rational character. The present study is an attempt to problematize both perspectives by reexamining the concepts of reason (or rationalism) and tradition (or traditionalism) in light of Muʻtazilite theology and ethics. This analysis shows that the modern heirs of Muʻtazili thought are not be sought in Muslim scholastic theology or Enlightenment liberalism, but in the postmodern critiques of Western Muslim scholars such as Tariq Ramadan and Khaled Abou El Fadl.