Earlier this year, I spent the month of Ramadan reading the Qurʾan alongside academic essays about Islam in order to better understand the religious faith. What I found surprised me. Rather than have it figured out, we–as Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem says–“have to admit collectively that we do not know some very basic things about the Qurʾan–things so basic that the knowledge of them is usually taken for granted by scholars dealing with other texts.”
The Green One’s Teaching: What Moses Learned from al-Khaḍir
