At least 50 people have been killed in two attacks in southern Iraq, health officials say. In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his vest and gunmen opened fire inside a roadside restaurant near Nasiriya, the capital of Dhiqar province, security sources said. Soon afterwards, a car bomb exploded at a nearby checkpoint.
The situation in Saudi Arabia is deteriorating sharply due to the ill-conceived policies of the ruling Al Saud family. In the past week, the regime arrested scores of prominent figures including religious scholars who had supported the regime in the past. They include Salman AlAwdah and Aa’edh Al Qarni.
Biographical note Readership Table of contents About the Authors Introduction Miriam L. Hjälm Part 1: The Bible in Context Alexander Treiger From Theodore Abū Qurra to Abed Azrié: The Arabic Bible in Context Cornelia Horn Apocrypha on Jesus’ Life in the Early Islamic Milieu: From Syriac into Arabic Peter Tarras The Spirit Before the Letter: Theodore Abū Qurra’s Use of Biblical Quotations in the Context of Early Christian Arabic Apologetics David Sklare Ninth-Century Judeo-Arabic Texts of Biblical Questions and Answers Geoffrey K.
