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On reading the Koran - Lesley Hazleton

2013-08-25

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Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book -- wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this myth-debunking talk. (Filmed atTEDxRainier.)

Talk by Lesley Hazleton.


Introduction
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The problem
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The language
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The surprises
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Oldfashioned orientalism
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