Islam's predicament : perspectives of a dissident Muslim / / Salim Mansur
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| Autore: |
Mansur Salim
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| Titolo: |
Islam's predicament : perspectives of a dissident Muslim / / Salim Mansur
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| Pubblicazione: | New Delhi : , : Gyan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (118 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 320.5/57 |
| Soggetto topico: | Islam and politics |
| Islam - 21st century | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Islam's predicament |
| ISBN: | 81-212-5194-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910149602103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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