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The search for beauty in Islam : a conference of the books /

In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through a ""conference of the books, "" an imagined conference of Muslim i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The conference of books : the first admission
  • The night's visitor
  • The pirates of the intellect
  • The terror of bigotry
  • The civilization of the book
  • The interminable conference
  • On betrayal
  • A prayer
  • Donkeys carrying books
  • To murder the soul
  • A one more knowing
  • Women as an 'Awra
  • The authoritative and the authoritarian
  • On obedience
  • To suffer the children
  • On forms of terror
  • Dial-a-farwa
  • On knowledge
  • NYC bombing
  • Umm Ahmad and the judge
  • The book massacres
  • To kill parenthood
  • Killing flies
  • Attending Jum'a
  • Burdens of a generation
  • The dialectics of an apology
  • The essential individual
  • The search for beauty
  • Hegemony and terrorism
  • Longing for brotherhood
  • The culture of the Mamnu'
  • On being in love
  • Lecturing on the ugly
  • A night with the Qalam
  • A homily for Ibn Rushd
  • The Sunna of the beloved
  • Colonizing women
  • The page
  • My friend
  • The truth of silence
  • On the beating of wives
  • The beating of wives revisited
  • In praise of the marginal
  • A love song
  • Migrating to the Shaykhs
  • On revising bigotry
  • An encounter with the Shaykh (on the delusions of the fog)
  • Finding the Shaykh
  • The book of suspended judgment
  • Dreaming of the prophet
  • Women as a colony
  • In the footsteps of the beloved
  • The state between two states (a partnership with God)
  • The pearls of beauty (on re-finding our lost civilization)
  • The intellectual refugee
  • When the devil speaks
  • Corrupting God's book
  • The remembrance
  • The scholar's road
  • Muhammad, the child
  • The revelation
  • Shades of divine light
  • The restorations of the night
  • The exorcisms of the night
  • The unity of strangers
  • The testimony
  • Searching for the house of God
  • Incoherence
  • A breath from God
  • Derangements
  • A leader among us
  • When God asks the child
  • The sites of purity
  • Banning the conference
  • 9/11
  • Divine threads
  • Embraced by the beloved
  • The Shaykha's endless jihad
  • Waves and rocks
  • The lord of the essence : a fatwa on dogs
  • Thieves of the dark
  • Quietus
  • Notes of the night
  • Notes of the transformation
  • The first admission
  • Glossary of terms.