Islam’s Predicament brings together Dr Mansur’s most important essays written over the last decade, previously published in various journals and media. Starting with “The War within Islam” he then goes on to “Three Muslim Perspectives”, ‘Of Danish Cartoons, Muslim Rage and the Bedouin State of Mind”, “Muslim on Muslim Violence”, “Keeping Faith in the Age of Islamist Terror” and much more.
Contents: Preface. Part One (Longer Pieces): 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. Part Two (Shorter Pieces) 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.
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