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In this episode of the Interfaiths podcast, Professor Iqbal Akhtar is joined by Dr. Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Dr. Cole shares the story of his extensive intellectual journey, ranging from his childhood in multi-religious Eritrea to his groundbreaking research on North Indian Shi’ism.
The conversation covers Dr. Cole’s experiences studying Christian-Muslim dialogue in Lebanon during the Civil War, his shift from the phenomenology of religion to history, and his rise as a prominent public intellectual and blogger during the post-9/11 era and the Iraq War. Finally, they discuss the importance of the "enlargement of the self" through cultural study and Dr. Cole's recent scholarly focus on concepts of peace and reconciliation within the Quran.
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