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Fr John Morrison: defender of an island’s cultural heritage and faith

Neil Bruce on the inspiration behind his new featured article in The Innes Review.

January 17, 2025
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A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

Edinburgh University Press
August 10, 2023

Fr John Morrison: defender of an island’s cultural heritage and faith

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

Fr John Morrison: defender of an island’s cultural heritage and faith

Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach？

Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature

This Deleuzian Century

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