August 11, 2008
Controversy Over a Canceled Novel About Muhammad's Bride Lives On
A University of Texas scholar stands by her assessment that a novel about the child bride of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is deliberately provocative and could incite outrage from fringe elements in the Islamic community.
Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of history at the Austin campus, rejects charges that she is squelching free speech and argues that the book takes too many liberties with the facts.
The novel's author, Sherry Jones, says the historian
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