Early last year, the Ministry of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran awarded its World Prize for the Book of the Year to The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur’an—originally published in French as Le Festin: Une lecture de la sorate al-Mâ’ida. The book’s author was invited to Tehran to receive the award from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and was subse (...)
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A Christian & the Qur’an
IRAN HONORS AN UNLIKELY SCHOLAR
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I have never heard of Roland Meynet's work but it sounds fascinating. It is not that I was not interested in Cuypers's story, but I would especially like to know more about how to read the Hebrew Bible.