Lesley Hazleton (1945–2024)
Autor von After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
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Lesley Hazleton is an award-winning author whose work focuses on the intersection of religion and politics. She reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years and has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Nation, and The New mehr anzeigen Republic, among others. Her most recent books are The First Muslim and After the Prophet, which was a finalist for a PEN Center USA Literary Award. Hazleton lives in Seattle and blogs as the Accidental Theologist (accidentaltheologist.com). weniger anzeigen
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- Geburtstag
- 1945
- Todestag
- 2024-04-29
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA (naturalized)
- Geburtsort
- England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Seattle, Washington, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jerusalem - Ausbildung
- University of Manchester
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Berufe
- writer
university professor - Organisationen
- Pennsylvania State University)
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- The Stranger's Genius Award in Literature (2011)
Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at Town Hall Seattle (2012) - Agent
- Gloria Loomis
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Things that made the book great:
1. The story itself is damn fascinating.
2. The writing was wonderful, it truly felt like a story rather than a historical account.
3. There was a good amount of tie-in with modern times, explaining how specific events or teachings or symbols turn into what we know today (I especially liked learning about how Muslim women came to wear the veil, which was a situation that every high schooler understands).
This book is especially useful for Americans because none of this is covered in our public schools' history classes, unlike the Catholic/Protestant split, which is covered extensively.… (mehr)