14 JULY 2007, Page 17

War on error

Sir: We wish to correct an error we made in our article 'For the Islamist doctor, terror is healing' (7 July). Abdullah Azzam, the mentor of Osama bin Laden, was not a physician. Rather, he was a teacher of Islamic law. We regret the error, which does not, however, affect the essential arguments of our article or our study, 'Scientific Training and Radical Islam'.

Stephen Schwartz and Itfan Al-Alawi Centre for Islamic Pluralism, Washington and London