Michael Sells

Michael SellsMichael Sells, Ph.D. is the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author of seven books and more than sixty articles, most recently Sells coedited and contributed to the forthcoming book The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Currently, he is completing a book entitled Glossary Link Jihad and Crusade: Religion and Violence after the Cold War. Sells is also the founder and president of the Community of Bosnia Foundation, dedicated to supporting a multireligious Bosnia-Herzegovinia.
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"Michael Sells’ Approaching the Qur’an is much more than a translation of the Qur’an. The work is a carefully considered introduction to a religious appreciation of the text from within a scholarly framework. Read more...
"All upon it will disappear
the face of your lord endures forever
majestic and giving
all on earth and all in the heavens implore his favor
each new day a dispensation"

~ from Approaching the Qu'ran: The Early Revelations, by Michael Sells Read more...