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Prince Dara Shikoh, Taking the Stage

In a court room in Northern India, a Sufi intellectual named Dara is being sentenced to death. His crime?  Rejecting a rigid view of Islam in favor of a more open interpretation.  But this scene isn’t ripped from the headlines—it dates all the way back to the 17th century.

This week, Interfaith Voices stages “The Trial of Dara Shikoh,” a new play about a forward-thinking Moghal prince.  Not only a compelling drama, it echoes the major rifts within Islam that continue to shape our world.

Dr. Akbar Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Studies, American University, author of The Trial of Dara Shikoh and Journey Into Islam
Manjula Kumar, actress and producer of the play
Actors: Ravi Khanna, Noor Naghmi and Rahul Seth.

For our listeners in the Washington, DC area: The Trial of Dara Shikoh will be staged March 21-22 at American University's Katzen Arts Center.

Commentary: Finding God in Camus

Begins at 31:50 

Writer Karen Anderson sees the holy in poetry and literature--hidden among the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Karen Anderson, a writer from Traverse City, Mich.
Commentary courtesy of Interlochen Public Radio

The Vatican recently resurrected archaic prayers for the "conversion of the Jews" in the Catholic Latin Mass  - to the dismay of many Jews and Catholics alike.  As Catholic historian James Carroll tells us, this is nothing new.  Join us as he traces the history of anti-Semitism, taking us from Constantine through the Holocaust.

James Carroll, author of Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, now a documentary film by Oren Jacoby, to be released nationwide in theaters this April.   

For our listeners in the Washington, DC area:

James Carroll will speak at the Sunday Forum at the Episcopal Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, March 9th at 10 a.m.

A pre-screening of Constantine’s Sword will be held at the Cathedral on Monday, March 10th at 7 p.m.