At the the New Yorker’s books blog, Page-Turner, Rollo Romig has written an insightful reflection on Light without Fire.

A good teacher is hard to find, but it’s easier when there are good institutions where you can look for one. Back in 2000, a Catholic nun named Marianne Farina noticed a gap in the world of religious higher education. She issued a challenge to her friend, a forty-two-year-old Muslim teacher named Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. “You’re one-fourth of the world’s population. Where are the Muslim colleges?” she asked. “You need to do it.”

Yusuf has written a thoughtful response in the comments section following the piece.

(Also, read about Romig’s own conversion to Islam and his first Ramadan fast here.)