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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149602103321

Autore

Mansur Salim

Titolo

Islam's predicament : perspectives of a dissident Muslim / / Salim Mansur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Gyan, , 2016

ISBN

81-212-5194-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 pages)

Disciplina

320.5/57

Soggetti

Islam and politics

Islam - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyrights -- About the Book -- About the Author -- Dedication -- There is no compulsion in religion -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1.   The War within Islam -- 2.   Enlightenment's Dusk? The West's Decline and Islam's Stormy Rise -- 3.   Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience -- 4.   Three Muslim perspectives -- 5.   Sadat's Conversion and What the Qur'an Says About Jews in the Holy Land -- 6.   Only Connect: Reconsidering Jewish-Muslim history -- 7.   Of Danish Cartoons, Muslim Rage and the Bedouin State of Mind -- 8.   Pakistan As It Turns Sixty -- 9.   Muslim on Muslim Violence: What Drives It? -- 10. A Sufi saint's response to Khomeini -- 11. Keeping faith in the age of Islamist terror -- 12. A Bedouin state of mind -- 13. Where Mao meets Muhammad -- 14. The Ways of God and Man -- 15. A Portrait of Courage -- 16. Reconciling revelation with reason -- 17. The father of all assassins -- 18. Osama's godfathers -- 19. Two solitudes that aren't -- 20. Perverting Islam for politics -- 21. The cost of two denials -- 22. The Mideast: A cesspool of hate -- 23. Exposed in Gaza -- 24. A choice awaits Arab states -- 25. The intellectual defence of tyranny -- 26. Reasonableness and rage -- 27. Muslim contradiction -- 28. Achieving freedom a fragile fight -- 29. The Malady of Islam -- 30. Barbarians kill as West drifts -- 31. How the West was duped -- 32. Europe placates foes of freedom -- 33. Muslim world not a monolith -- 34. Getting a read on the Quran -- 35. Let's not monkey



with the Quran -- 36. Democracy breeds bravery -- 37. Democracy can heal -- 38. I'm sorry -- 39. In gratitude -- 40. We Muslims have work to do -- References.