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Who Speaks for Islam?

October 1, 2008 islamoyankee

Against our tag line of “Islam doesn’t speak, Muslims do” John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed have published a book called “Who Speaks for Islam?” What I have read so far is really promising. Gulf News is running a series of articles about the book. Worth looking at:

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Part 3

Part 4

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