Samir Selmanovic
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Samir Selmanovic, Ph.D., is a founder and Christian co-leader of Faith House Manhattan, an interfaith “community of communities” that brings together forward-looking Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and others who seek to thrive interdependently. Samir is also the director of a Christian community in New York City called Citylights and serves on the Interfaith Relations commission of the National Council of Churches and speaks nationally and internationally. For longer version bio click on PRESS KIT.

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posted at 11/05/09 - 10:32 PM
CORRECTION: I meant Daniel (NOT "David") Ladinsky.
posted at 11/05/09 - 10:15 PM
I've just finished reading IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT GOD, and wonder why Samir Selmanovic frequently relies on the notoriously spurious "translations" (of Hafiz, Aquinas, and others) created by the poet David Ladinsky. (Mr. Ladinsky has a well-documented habit of applying the term "translations" to his own original poetry which has little or -- in many cases -- nothing to do with the work he claims he "translates").

Rev. Selmanovic's reliance on such a very questionable secondary source for quotations lends an unintended, and distasteful, irony to his book's repeated paeans to the power and importance of truthfulness. I wept to see that truth -- as Selmanovic sees it and praises it -- does not involve such little matters as getting the facts right.
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