Close encounters of the spiritual kind


IMAGINE this; a non-Muslim befriending an Islamic scholar and immersing herself into his teachings and trying to read and understand the Quran for a full year. Carla Power’s journey is unprecedented.

Her book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran is engros­sing as much as it’s illuminating and thoughtful.

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Opinion , Tan Sri Johan Jaaffar , columnist

   

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