Reza Aslan
Autore di Gesù il ribelle: vita di un uomo nella Palestina dell'anno zero
Sull'Autore
Born in Iran, Dr. Reza Aslan is a writer and scholar of religion. He is also President and CEO of Aslan Media Inc. Dr. Aslan has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the mostra altro University of Iowa. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Dr. Aslan also serves on the national advisory board of the Levantine Cultural Center, building bridges between Americans and the Arab/Muslim world. Aslan's first book, the International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Heinemann 2005), has been translated into thirteen languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the editor of the anthology Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East: A Words Without Borders Anthology (WW Norton 2010). His latest work is entitled Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Random House 2013). Dr. Aslan lives in Los Angeles where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Reza Aslan
Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders) (2010) — A cura di — 196 copie
Beyond Fundamentalism 1 copia
Opere correlate
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Collaboratore — 116 copie
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices (2006) — Collaboratore — 105 copie
The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Aslan, Reza
- Nome legale
- رضا اصلان
- Data di nascita
- 1972-05-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Iran
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Tehran, Iran
- Luogo di residenza
- Iran (birth)
Santa Barbara, California, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Istruzione
- Santa Clara University (B.A.|1995|religious studies)
Harvard Divinity School (MTS | 1999)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A. | 2002 | fiction writing)
University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D | 2009 | sociology) - Attività lavorative
- schoolteacher
TV producer
editor
professor of Creative Writing - Relazioni
- Jackley, Jessica (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Southern California
University of California, Riverside
American Academy of Religion
Society of Biblical Literature
International Qur'anic Studies Association
National Iranian American Council (mostra tutto 7)
PEN American Center
Utenti
Discussioni
Zealot in Christianity (Febbraio 2014)
Warning on "Zealot" by Reza Aslan in Theology Book Club (Dicembre 2013)
Recensioni
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Reading list (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 6,156
- Popolarità
- #3,994
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 203
- ISBN
- 116
- Lingue
- 20
- Preferito da
- 4
Reza Aslan clearly admires Baskerville, or certainly admires what he thinks Baskerville represents: a kind of general, humane pursuit of freedom and peace that transcends personal and group differences. He also is drawn to Baskerville's ability to link two countries for which Aslan clearly has great affection. But one major reservation I had with this book is that Aslan's framing of Baskerville and his behaviour seems to be, if not entirely cynical, then certainly almost wilfully selective. Aslan seems to not want to really grapple with the implications of the fact that, as he himself acknowledges, Baskerville acts not in spite of or in transcendence of his goals as an evangelical Christian missionary, but to fulfil them. I didn't find myself admiring Baskerville the way that Aslan did—I thought he was a fairly naive guy who, if asked, probably thought Manifest Destiny was a great thing to pursue.
What, in other words, did Baskerville think he was being martyred for? (If indeed that's the term we should use.)
Not that we can know what Baskerville thought on that topic since he left almost no written accounts behind him and much of his life is poorly documented—even when it comes to the great transatlantic voyage which took Baskerville from the U.S. to Europe and on to Tabriz, Aslan can only make a best guess as to which ports he arrived at.
By the end of the book I found myself thinking that Baskerville could have—should have—been confined to a single chapter. But then, would Aslan have been able to appeal to and to flatter American sensibilities so readily? (Because this not a book intended for any other audience, I don't think.)… (altro)