New translations in Arabic, Farsi and other languages will make Dawkins's controversial books readable to audiences in the Muslim world.
Richard Dawkins's"The God Delusion," translated into Urdu. By Julie Zauzmer Julie Zauzmer Reporter covering religion, faith and spirituality Email Bio Follow March 13 at 6:00 AM In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.
Lenzova’s team is making professionally translated editions of Dawkins’s books available for free online in four languages: Arabic, spoken in dozens of countries, from Iraq and Saudi Arabia to the entire northern part of the African continent; Farsi, spoken in Iran and Afghanistan; Urdu, spoken in Pakistan and parts of India; and Indonesian.
Dawkins castigates all religions and all religious believers in his writing, but some critics have charged that he reserves special bitterness for Islam and for Muslim practitioners.
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