A Fox News host this weekend questioned why a religious scholar who was Muslim would write a book about Jesus. The nerve, right?
Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth written by Reza Aslan, who is a Muslim.*
*Aslan is also a religious scholar with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, a Ph.D. in the history of religions from the University of California, and he is fluent in Biblical Greek.
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Islam: A Short History written by Karen Armstrong, who was raised Catholic.*
*Armstrong also has addressed members of the U.S. Congress on three occasions, lectured to policy makers at the U.S. State Department, participated in the World Economic Forum in New York, Jordan, and Davos, addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and New York, is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim countries, and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations.
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Islam: The Religion And The People written by Bernard Lewis, who is Jewish.*
*Lewis also is a Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University with an emphasis in the history of Islam and interactions between Islam and the West
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Islam: The Straight Path written by John L. Esposito, who was raised Catholic and spent a decade in a Catholic monastery.*
*Esposito is also a professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University, founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam.
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