| Description |
544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Part one: Personal matters. On becoming English -- Apologia pro vita sua -- Part two: Koranic matters. Some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism, 700 CE-2005 CE -- Introduction to What the Koran really says -- The importance of variants : introduction to which Koran? -- Virgins? What virgins? -- Part three: Totalitarianisms. Islam, the Middle East, and fascism -- Apologists of totalitarianism : from communism to Islam -- Apostasy, human rights, religion, and belief : new threats to freedom of opinion and expression -- Islam on trial : reasons for leaving Islam -- Part four: Reformation and enlightenment. Reason not revelation -- Part five: Journalism. Honest intellectuals must shed their spiritual turbans : Islam, the final taboo -- Brother Tariq and the Muslim hoods : toward a taxomony of Islamic subterfuges -- Rock, humanitarian causes, political commitment, and Islam / with Raphael Ismail -- The Regent's Canal and the trail to the British raj, Parsis, and Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney -- Why the West is best : my response to Tariq Ramadan -- Democracy in a cartoon -- Allawi and the crisis of Islamic civilization. |
| Subject |
Islam -- Controversial literature.
|
|
Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
Islamic fundamentalism.
|
|
Religious tolerance -- Islam.
|
|
Islam -- 21st century.
|
| ISBN |
9781616141707 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
|
1616141700 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
|
