It’s become trendy among journalists, academics, and U.S. government officials to bend over backwards to declare Islam a religion of peace. They quote passages from the Quran to demonstrate the tolerance and peaceful nature of “true” Islam. Often, though, isolating these verses ignores the fact that, according to centuries of Islamic jurisprudence, some verses trump other verses.

David Bukay has an excellent, detailed, and accessible overview of abrogation in Islam in the most recent issue of the Middle East Quarterly, here.