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Until a minute ago, I’d assumed that the sort of person who rereads Tender Is the Night and writes on twentiethcentury intellectual history would deem reading the Quran a worthy pursuit. I finished my monologue, triumphantly forked some kale into my mouth, swallowed, and parried. “Why? ” “They’re living in the medieval ages,” Hans said breezily. ” I’d heard this dozens of times before—from London taxi drivers, on Midwestern talk radio, and even from cultivated types like Hans. Had it not been for the din of kids bickering over whether to watch Peter Pan or Snow White, perhaps I would have retorted that fundamentalists can’t be dismissed as medieval.
Like Hans’s casual denunciations of Islam at lunch, it suggested that prejudice lurked in unlikely places. It disturbed me. Not as a Jew, but as a humanist. Maybe studying the Quran with Akram was too risky, like getting your parents to teach you how to drive. In unpacking the Quran’s first sura, we’d strayed from the carefully pruned list of topics we’d stuck to for twenty years. We’d veered off our own straight path and onto the hard shoulder of the road. So much of my enthusiasm for Islamic society had been born of the pleasure of finding similarities with my own outlooks.
As a scholar, he was incredulous; as a journalist, I wasn’t. Gore and absolutes always grab people’s attention faster than poetry and nuance. Akram smiled conspiratorially. “People are really very shocked when I tell them that the four schools of law aren’t really that important,” he said. ” I wasn’t convinced. More people were reading it, but it still created controversy. Men still used the Quran to legitimize their actions when they beat their wives. Bin Laden had used the Quran to declare war on all those he deemed infidels.