Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
The full Christopher Hitchens Lecture at Hay Festival 2015. Historian and novelist Tom Holland talks about the tensions arising from interpretations of the Prophet Muhammad's scriptures and sayings and how some Muslims might view the writings in a symbolic sense while others take a more literal interpretation. Chaired by Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times.
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