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  "en": "Reza Aslan — Christian Science Monitor (2013)"
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  "ar": "مقال دان ميرفي في كريستيان ساينس مونيتور ⁦(28 يوليو 2013)⁩ ينقل قول رضا أصلان في مقابلة إذاعية: «أنا مسلم بالتأكيد، والتصوف هو التقليد داخل الإسلام الذي ألتزم به أكثر من غيره».",
  "en": "Dan Murphy's Christian Science Monitor piece (28 July 2013) reporting Reza Aslan's WNYC interview statement: 'I'm definitely a Muslim and Sufism is the tradition within Islam that I most closely adhere to.'"
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "title": "Can Muslims write about Christianity?",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Murphy",
    "given": "Dan"
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2013,
     7,
     28
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  "publisher": "The Christian Science Monitor",
  "URL": "https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2013/0728/Can-Muslims-write-about-Christianity",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "News report of 28 July 2013 quoting Aslan's 2013 interview with WNYC host Brian Lehrer, in which Aslan states in his own words: 'I'm definitely a Muslim and Sufism is the tradition within Islam that I most closely adhere to.' Read via the quotation as preserved in the English Wikipedia article and confirmed in the Monitor's own text on 1 November 2026. One of two independent sources for his self-identified Sufi adherence.",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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