The Issue at a Glance

Reforming Scholarship on Islam: An Interview with Ibn Warraq (10.1007/s12129-011-9211-5)

Carol Iannone, National Association of Scholars

Ibn Warraq, a visiting fellow at the Center for Law and Counterterrorism and the author of seven books about Islam, including Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995) and Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s “Orientalism” (2007), discusses the roots and consequences of the absence of rigorous scholarship on the Koran in American universities today. In a conversation with AQ editor-at-large Carol Iannone that touches on his upbringing and life’s work, Prof. Warraq argues for “an enlightenment rather than a reformation” in which the Koran receives the same kind of scholarly critique that has been applied to the Bible.

Islamic Schools and American Civic Culture (10.1007/s12129-010-9210-y)

M. Zuhdi Jasser, American Islamic Forum for Democracy

M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., founder and president