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Lesley Hazleton (born 1945) is a British-American author whose work focuses on the intersection of politics, religion, and history, especially in the Middle East. She reported from Israel for ''Time'', and has written on the Middle East for numerous publications including ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''Harper's'', ''The Nation'', and ''The New Republic''.〔http://thefirstmuslim.com/?page_id=9〕 Hazleton was born in England but became a United States citizen in 1994. She was based in Jerusalem from 1966 to 1979 and in New York City from 1979 to 1992, when she moved to her current home in Seattle WA, originally to get her pilot's license. She has two degrees in psychology (B.A. Manchester University, M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem).〔"About the author." 'After the Prophet.' 2009. She has described herself as "a Jew who once seriously considered becoming a rabbi, a former convent schoolgirl who daydreamed about being a nun, an agnostic with a deep sense of religious mystery though no affinity for organized religion".〔''Seattle Times'' 10/26/07〕 "Everything is paradox," she has said. "The danger is one-dimensional thinking".〔''Publishers Weekly'' 5/21/07〕 In April 2010, she began blogging as The Accidental Theologist, casting "an agnostic eye on religion, politics, and existence."〔The Accidental Theologist/Who Is the AT? Her biography of Muhammad was published by Riverhead Books in January, 2013.〔http://thefirstmuslim.com/〕 ==Speeches== TED.com has video of two of her talks: -- TEDGlobal 2013: The Doubt Essential To Faith. Thumbnail: "When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith -- and an end to fundamentalism of all kinds." 〔http://www.ted.com/talks/lesley_hazleton_the_doubt_essential_to_faith.html〕 -- TEDxRainier 2011: On Reading the Koran. Thumbnail: "Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book—wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this myth-debunking talk." 〔http://www.ted.com/talks/lesley_hazelton_on_reading_the_koran.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lesley Hazleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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