The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell talks with Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, about sacred texts, why religious extremists are just literalists, his life-long commitment to bringing the Abrahamic faiths together, his deep love of Iran – and how its image is distorted in the West – and why America has become vilified in many countries around the world. They also talk poignantly about the Qur’an as an oral revelation, equating the beauty of its oral recitation in Arabic as transforming to the psyche and the soul, not unlike examples in music or Latin liturgies in Catholic mass.

Host> The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director, Department of Religion
Guest> Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies, George Washington University.

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