{"id":39139,"date":"2017-01-12T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39139"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:40:22","slug":"whats-missing-teaching-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/whats-missing-teaching-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What&#8217;s Missing in the Teaching of Islam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39140\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/Edirne_7333_Nevit.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39140\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39140\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/Edirne_7333_Nevit.jpg\" alt=\"Selimiye Cami, Edirne\" width=\"597\" height=\"416\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sixteenth-century Selimiye Mosque, in Edirne, Turkey, which was designed by the great Mimar Sinan, is among\u00a0the buildings that we\u2019ll discuss this term. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the courses I\u2019m teaching this term focuses primarily on Islamic literature and architecture, so I\u2019m very comfortable with the thesis of this article. \u00a0I don\u2019t do as much of the comparative Western\/Islamic approach as he would like, but I do some, and I would be entirely happy (in a different class) to do more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2017\/01\/12\/whats_missing_in_the_teaching_of_islam_110097.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2017\/01\/12\/whats_missing_in_the_teaching_of_islam_110097.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 One of the courses I\u2019m teaching this term focuses primarily on Islamic literature and architecture, so I\u2019m very comfortable with the thesis of this article. \u00a0I don\u2019t do as much of the comparative Western\/Islamic approach as he would like, but I do some, and I would be entirely happy (in a different class) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;What&#039;s Missing in the Teaching of Islam&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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