“This book is a gift to the field of interreligious education, and an
invitation to its teachers to teach from their hearts and minds. Prof.
Selcuk’s work is like that of a pentimento artist who carefully and meticulously
reveals original elements of a painting that have undergone changes
through the ages. With skillful and respectful academic rigor, she not
only restores and amplifies the brilliance and beauty of ancient Islamic
wisdom, she paints with fresh brushstrokes from a wide palette of her
own teaching experience and that of others thus making its tenets accessible
and relevant to present day perils of colliding worlds. Her melding of
theological scholarship and educational practice gives us hope by affirming
the wisdom that ‘…when old words die out on the tongue, new
melodies break forth from the heart’ (Tagore). It takes teachers like her
who are theological and educational artists to help make this happen,
and Dr. Selcuk beautifully shows us how.”
Gloria Durka
Professor emerita Fordham University
President, ISREV International Seminar on Religious Education and Values.
