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Radio 3,09 Dec 2014,45 mins

Mona Siddiqui, Ziauddin Sardar, Navid Kermani

Free Thinking

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Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and interreligious studies at Edinbugh University, talks to Philip Dodd about her book called My Way: A Muslim Woman's Journey. The scholar Ziauddin Sardar is the Chair of the Muslim Institute and Editor of Critical Muslim. He has written Mecca, The Sacred City which explores the history of the birthplace of Muhammad and his own pilgrimages to it. Navid Kermani, the German Islamic scholar, has written God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran which considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived and experienced from the time of the Prophet to the present day. Producer: Georgia Catt You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.

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