John Esposito, pioneering scholar of Islam in the US, dies aged 86

Al Jazeera English is reporting the death of John Esposito, a pioneering scholar of Islam in the United States, who has died at the age of eighty-six. As the outlet tells it, the Georgetown scholar and author spent decades working to build bridges between the Islamic and Western worlds. Al Jazeera's feed does not include further detail.

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