Podcast Episodes featuring Garry Wills

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Garry Wills

Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series - October 19, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? Garry Wills, one of America’s greatest religious scholars, leads us through an insightful and erudite study of these questions and more in this opportunity to learn together about Islam’s most sacred text. In...

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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters with Garry Wills

Carnegie Council Podcasts - October 06, 2017 17:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
How can we engage with Muslims around the world without really understanding what they believe? On studying the Qur'an, religious scholar Garry Wills found that many of our perceptions of Islam are false or distorted. Most surprisingly, Islam is a very inclusive religion, more so than Judaism or ...

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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters with Garry Wills

Carnegie Council Podcasts - October 06, 2017 17:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 57 ratings
How can we engage with Muslims around the world without really understanding what they believe? On studying the Qur'an, religious scholar Garry Wills found that many of our perceptions of Islam are false or distorted. Most surprisingly, Islam is a very inclusive religion, more so than Judaism or ...

Books written by Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills

317 pages - ★★★★ - 119 ratings

Henry Adams and the Making of America
Garry Wills

480 pages - ★★★★ - 91 ratings