Friday 22 March 2019

Translators aim to bring Richard Dawkins’s books on atheism and evolution to a Muslim audience

Translators aim to bring Richard Dawkins’s books on atheism and evolution to a Muslim audience

In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.” It is a goal that has meant Dawkins’s books have courted controversy ever since. Now, a group of translators wants to get Dawkins’s books in front of a new group of religious readers: Muslim readers, in Muslim-majority countries where atheism is rare.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/03/13/translators-aim-bring-richard-dawkinss-books-atheism-evolution-muslim-audience/?utm_term=.06571b33792e?source=Snapzu

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