Mark Durie
This opinion piece appeared in The Age newspaper of March 25, 2011 THOSE who denounce critics of Islam should allow that, like all global faiths, Islam has its detractors and a religion will be judged on what its followers say and do. There is a debate going...
My previous post discussed the difficulty of reading the Qur'an. This post addresses a very specific challenging issue in Quranic translation, namely the meaning of certain 'fighting' verses. There are many verses in the Quran which refer to fighting and killing. I would like to consider...
I am grateful to the linguist Alton L. Becker for drawing my attention to a principle that language is both exuberant and deficient. His words sank deep into my consciousness at the time of first reading them over twenty five years ago: In the fifties, the...
