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Quakers Reading Mystics

By Michael Birkel. Brill, 2018. 124 pages. $81/paperback or eBook; $30/article. Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2018) of Quaker Studies.

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Books November 2014

Quaker book reviews

Staff

Qur’an in Conversation

By Michael Birkel. Baylor University Press, 2014. 292 pages. $39.95/hardcover. With Qur’an in Conversation, Michael Birkel—author, scholar, and professor of…

Reviewed by Ellen Michaud

A Seal upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs

By Michael Birkel. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 438), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”—some of us can remember…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

Reading the Qur’an as a Quaker

Fifth Season's Featured Video

Michael Birkel

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

Staff

Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought: 1647–1723

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 340 pages. $120/hardcover; $96/eBook. “An institution is the…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

Staff

A Guest of the Qur’an

Reading Islam's holy book as a Friend.

Michael Birkel

Some Advice from John Woolman on Meeting for Business

Michael Birkel