麻烦在于，当今阿拉伯世界所使用的大部分宗教典籍面向的是已经不存在的专家，并且 — — 如李斯曼所警告的 — — 它们常常被曲解。
The trouble is that most religious texts consumed today in the Arab world address an audience of specialists that no longer exists and – as Riesman warned – they are often misconstrued.