November 22, 2002

From the Muslim World, 13 Scholars in Search of Common Ground

By ALAN WOLFE

Following September 11, Americans from all walks of life found themselves learning about Islam. Academic specialists like Georgetown University's John L. Esposito were in great demand. Books, including such disparate works as the Koran and the collected writings of the historian Bernard Lewis, claimed places on best-seller lists. Institutions of higher education like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assigned works on Islam to incoming freshmen, inadvertently provoking intense

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