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Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace"

Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”

Juan Cole 11/18/2018

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RISING UP WITH SONALI KOLHATKAR: FEATURING JUAN COLE – Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions – and sadly the most misunderstood especially in the West. A whopping 1.5 billion humans identify as Muslim. Yet there are political forces that have interpreted an extremist version of the religion and there are racist forces that have deemed them representative of all Muslims.

Now, a new biography of the Prophet Muhammad attempts to correct the record on a holy figure that has been maligned by Islamophobes for years.

People who like podcosts will find an audio mp3 at Sonali’s site

Rising up with Sonali interviews Juan Cole on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires


    Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, out October 9

    *Now* available for order at Barnes and Noble

    And Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor

    And Hachette

    And Amazon

Sonali’s schedule and more information about Rising Up:

All our interviews are on our website RisingUpWithSonali.com (video and audio format).
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*if you are interested in airing our program on your local station please contact us at mail@risingupwithsonali.com.
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Filed Under: Islam, Qur'an

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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