Lawrence P. Goldrup

Lawrence Goldrup, also a graduate of B.Y.U., taught for two years in Saudi Arabia, and has recently completed a Ph.D. at U.C.L.A. in Islamic Studies.

Articles

Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay On the Perils of Historical Analogy

Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58
Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and the church are different.

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