Welcome to the Naddo Better Show. I'm Paul Vogel-Sang and this is episode number 299.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Series, our guest today is Jack Miles.

Jack Miles is a distinguished professor emeritus of English and religious Studies at the University of California Irvine

and Senior Fellow for Religion and International Affairs with the Pacific Council on International

Policy. He is the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his book, God, a biography,

and a recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellows.

Jack Miles's newest book is titled God in the Quran.

Today on the Not Old Better Show, we'll be talking with Jack Miles about the Muslim faith,

Allah, Islam, and we'll try to answer questions in a way for Muslims and non-Muslims alike

to better understand and interpret the beliefs of a people and the deity whom

they worship. Familiar to our not old better show audience

will be the theme of understanding.

Why it's important to understand other religions,

perhaps even reading other scriptures

and seeing their point of view.

Well, I think it's a great strength in our country that we can all read each other's

scriptures and we can all talk freely about them without let or hindrance.

It has been a great boon to me as a Christian that Jews have been lately reading and writing at length and with great candor and insight

about the Christian Bible, the New Testament. And I'm hoping that a similar sense of security can exist among Muslims

as someone who is not a Muslim rights about their Quran and that they may

feel free in a similar way to read and talk about the scriptures of the Christians and Jews.

That of course is our guest today, Jack Miles,

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