The most vocal critics have focused on his religion and not his research. Later in life, he states, he has "reconnected" with the faith of his forefathers. in 1979 after the Shah was overthrown by radical Islamists, Aslan became an evangelical Christian in his teens, but eventually drifted away from organized religion as he began his studies. A flood of controversy has surfaced around California professor Reza Aslan, author of the best-selling history: "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," but the most vitriolic doesn't concern the book.īorn to a secular family in Iran that fled to the U.S.
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