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SUMMARY:One Moses\, Two Scriptures: The Torah and the Qur'an in Conversati
 on
LOCATION:Media and Public Affairs Building 310\, 805 21st Street NW\, Wash
 ington DC 20052
DESCRIPTION:The Torah and the Qur'an tell stories about many of the same f
 igures — above all\, Moses\, the prophet the Qur'an names more often than
  any other. For fourteen centuries\, Jews and Muslims have interpreted th
 ese stories through traditions in each other's shadow\, amid rivalry\, ex
 change and mutual influence. What happens when they are read side by side
 ? Join GW's Ambassador John L. Loeb\, Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom
  and Democracy for a discussion about what the two scriptures share\, whe
 re they diverge and what reading them together can — and cannot — do for 
 Jews and Muslims today.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nRick Sopher (Woolf Institute) is 
 co-author (with Abdulla Galadari) of the recently published Illuminating 
 Scriptural Connections: A Qur'anic Commentary on the Torah (Jewish Public
 ation Society\, 2026)\, which reads every weekly Torah portion alongside 
 the Qur'an.Mustafa Akyol (Cato Institute)\, author of The Islamic Moses: 
 How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change
  the World (St. Martin's\, 2024)\, has explored the common religious gram
 mar of law\, prophecy and scholarship that has connected Judaism and Isla
 m across the centuries.Historian of Islam Joel Blecher\, associate profes
 sor of history at George Washington University\, is a scholar of Islamic 
 intellectual history and traditions of textual interpretation.RSVP >>\n\n
 http://next-to-u.app/events/b5eb5a82-d267-472a-9316-bffe7ab5ae17
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/b5eb5a82-d267-472a-9316-bffe7ab5ae17
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