Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
OK JP, I’ll throw this one at you: Would you support your public library placing the QURAN on a shelf by itself, and above all of the books in the library? It requires that honor. In order to hold a QURAN in a culturally appropriate manner, it should be venerated.

If you think that is a ridiculous question, let me tell you that I received a complaint about that very thing.
If I were a librarian I suppose I would do the research on appropriate treatment of the book. Five minutes with the googles told me that there are a variety of opinions on the topic with the extreme being that the library probably shouldn’t have one because non-Islamic people shouldn’t touch a Quran. From the library’s perspective probably the best, and easiest, way to resolve that would be to reach out to one or two leaders of the local Islamic community and follow their recommendations.