Posted on 09/23/2010 7:48:22 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
The threat by Pastor Terry Jones to burn the Qur'an was all over the news. What if, instead of destroying Muslim books, we were actually to create them, by translating the classic works of the Islamic golden age into English?
That is the project Dan Peterson, a professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University has been engaged in for more than a decade, a project that has built tremendous goodwill and resulted in many lasting friendships between Muslims and those of the Mormon faith.
This past Sunday evening, Peterson was in town as part of a BYU humanities outreach to give a lecture at the Mormon Church in Naperville on BYU's Islamic Translation Series. Several hundred people were in attendance, including several dozen Muslim dignataries and guests.
Peterson recalled that when he was first appointed as a professor and began to teach a course in Islamic philosophy, he was chagrined by the lack of classic Islamic texts available in English translation. You can walk into any Borders or Barnes and Noble and find multiple translations of the great thinkers of Greece and Rome, but not so for Islam.
Some time later he was approached by Elder Alexander Morrison, a General Authority (central church leader) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the sponsoring institution of BYU. Elder Morrison wanted to discuss with Peterson ways in which BYU could reach out to the Muslim world in a gesture of friendship and respect.
Peterson came to that meeting prepared with a list of ideas, but the one that Morrison (a former academic himself) quickly seized upon was that for a translation series of classic Islamic texts. This idea was particularly appealing to Morrison because it would not entail us talking about Islam, but rather would let the great thinkers of
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That’s good information to know..thanks.
>>Notice that doesn’t mean the extreme radical side. I doubt that will matter to many of the freeper regulars that only desire to attack the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but nevertheless.
Also notice the phrase “friendship and respect”. That will be a new concept to some.<<
Lets see what the Bible says we should do with the “friendship and respect” idea.
2 John 1:7-11
7Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
To: 999replies
By your previous posts, I can see that you are neither Mormon nor Christian.
You post obsessively on LDS Religion Forum threads with no theological or philosophical context. Instead your posts attack those who are actually posting theological arguments.
That makes you a trouble-maker, a flame baiter.
Do not post on the Religion Forum at all until such a time you can convince me by Freepmail that you have theological or philosophical input and will refrain from inciting flame wars.
63 posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:11:39 AM by Religion Moderator
He must have convinced the Mod.
Well, I'm convinced!
Many people on this site would prefer to reach out to Muslims with polearms, Barret 50 cals or nukes.
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Do nukes come in pink ???
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