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Now that I'm back in the semester, more teaching will appear, and less text editing.
It always surprises me how textbooks that give excerpts of the Qur'an give such a narrow range of excerpts. (And so predictably, either ethical exhortations to care for the vulnerable or the interreligious polemics, depending on the textbook author's political leanings.) The Qur'an is a very diverse book! I had to create my own selection to show some greater breadth.
What's my teaching goal? Mostly I want students to realize the Qur'an is complex and that before they say, "Well the Qur'an says X" they should stop and read not just an isolated verse or two, and ideally they should engage with the #tafsir (commentary) tradition. I teach against soundbites.
