![]() ![]() A recent television interview that has gotten wide play shows a calm Aslan explaining his credentials and reasoning while a vitriolic interviewer, who obviously had not read the book, keeps questioning his motives: "Why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus?"įoremost, he explained, he is a well-credentialed religious historian who has spent two decades studying the historical Jesus, "the man who would so permanently alter the course of human history." So, why not?Īslan began his quest accepting that there are only "two hard historical facts about Jesus of Nazareth upon which we can confidently rely: the first is that Jesus was a Jew who led a popular Jewish movement in Palestine at the beginning of the first century C.E. The most vocal critics have focused on his religion and not his research. Later in life, he states, he has "reconnected" with the faith of his forefathers. in 1979 after the Shah was overthrown by radical Islamists, Aslan became an evangelical Christian in his teens, but eventually drifted away from organized religion as he began his studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() A flood of controversy has surfaced around California professor Reza Aslan, author of the best-selling history: "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," but the most vitriolic doesn't concern the book.īorn to a secular family in Iran that fled to the U.S. ![]()
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