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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Mona Siddiqui

Philip Dodd

Ziauddin Sardar

Navid Kermani

Georgia Catt

Free Thinking: Mona Siddiqui, Ziauddin Sardar, Navid Kermani

Mona Siddiqui, Ziauddin Sardar, Navid Kermani

09/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Mona Siddiqui, Ziauddin Sardar, Navid Kermani

Philip Dodd explores Islam, Mecca and the Quran with Mona Siddiqui and Ziauddin Sardar.

Philip Dodd explores Islam, Mecca and the Qur'an with professor of Islamic and interreligious studies Mona Siddiqui, and scholars Ziauddin Sardar and Navid Kermani.

Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and interreligious studies at Edinbugh University, talks to Philip Dodd about her book called My Way: A Muslim Woman's Journey.

The scholar Ziauddin Sardar is the Chair of the Muslim Institute and Editor of Critical Muslim. He has written Mecca, The Sacred City which explores the history of the birthplace of Muhammad and his own pilgrimages to it. 

Navid Kermani, the German Islamic scholar, has written God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran which considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived and experienced from the time of the Prophet to the present day.

Producer: Georgia Catt

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