![]() ![]() But for a long time, he was like, “Look, this is what happens. Eventually he did-two of his brilliant women students, both physicians, were able to argue him around. We weren’t sitting around singing “Kumbaya.” I kept wanting him to completely renounce child marriage. But were there any days when you regretted it? For her new book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran, she spent a year interviewing an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, in London, absorbing his eight-hour classes in the Quran, and traveling with him to Mecca and India.īrilliant idea. “He flattened the world for us,” says Power, who continued the travel as a correspondent for Newsweek and now covers Muslim societies and global social issues for Time. ![]() The daughter of a Jewish feminist and a Quaker law professor, Carla Power lived in Iran, Afghanistan, and Egypt during her father’s sabbaticals from Saint Louis University’s law faculty. ![]()
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