{"id":7600,"date":"2008-12-18T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:24:18","slug":"the-term-scholar-is-given-away-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7600","title":{"rendered":"The Term &#8216;Scholar&#8217; Is Given Away Too Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/post\/inteview_andrew_bostom\">Jewcy.com<\/a> calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbostom.org\/\">Andrew Bostom<\/a> a &quot;scholar of Islam.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew can&#8217;t read read Arabic. Just as anybody who can&#8217;t read Hebrew can not be a scholar of Judaism and somebody who can&#8217;t read German can&#8217;t be a scholar of Samson Raphael Hirsch (sorry Steve Bailey), so too anybody who can&#8217;t read Arabic can not be a scholar of Islam and cannot influence Islam and should not influence our views of Islam. I know it is fun to hate Islam, but we can&#8217;t seize of every writer who comes along as a &quot;scholar of Islam.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewcy.com calls Andrew Bostom a &quot;scholar of Islam.&quot; Andrew can&#8217;t read read Arabic. Just as anybody who can&#8217;t read Hebrew can not be a scholar of Judaism and somebody who can&#8217;t read German can&#8217;t be a scholar of Samson Raphael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16281],"tags":[14823,13524,14822,14824,14825],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-andrew-bostom","tag-samson-raphael-hirsch","tag-scholar-of-islam","tag-sorry-steve","tag-steve-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160337,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/160337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}