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      John Renard received his doctorate in Islamic Studies from Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 1978. Since then he has been teaching courses in Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, religion and the arts, and comparative theology at the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. Earlier publications include All the King’s Falcons: Rumi on Prophets and Revelation (SUNY, 1994); Seven Doors to Islam and Windows on the House of Islam (California, 1996, 1998); and Islam and the Heroic Image: Themes in Literature and the Visual Arts (Mercer, 1999), as well as volumes on Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism for Paulist Press’s “101 Questions” series. His most recent books are Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood (California, 2008), Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (California, 2009), Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective (California, 2011), Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts (California, 2012), and Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader (California, 2014).

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