July 19, 2002
Beach-Blanket Bookworms
When officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill anointed a book on Islam for a summer reading program, they raised eyebrows as much as cultural awareness.
The university is requiring its 3,500 incoming freshmen to read Approaching the Qur'án: The Early Revelations (White Cloud Press, 1999), by Michael Sells, a professor of religion at Haverford College. An academic book, it explores the Islamic scriptures and contains 35 suras, similar to psalms or parables in
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