Letters to a young Muslim / Omar Saif Ghobash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghobash, Omar Saif, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghobash, Omar Saif, 1971-.

Ghobash, Omar Saif.

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Muslim youth.

Islamic sociology.

Ambassadors--United Arab Emirates--Biography.

Ambassadors.

United Arab Emirates.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 244 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, [2017]

Summary:

Omar Saif Ghobash was born in 1971 in the United Arab Emirates -- the same year the country was founded -- to an Arab father and a Russian mother. After a traumatizing experience losing his father to a violent attack in 1977, when he was only six years old, Ghobash began to realize the severe violence that surrounded him in his home country. As he grew older, eventually being appointed as the UAE Ambassador to Russia in 2008, he began to reflect on what it means to be a Muslim, establishing a moral foundation rooted in the belief of the hard grind that is the crux of spiritual and practical living. This book is the result of the personal exploration Ghobash went through in the years after his father's death. The new generation of Muslims is tomorrow's leadership, and yet many are vulnerable to taking the violent shortcut to paradise and ignoring the traditions and foundations of Islam. The burning question, Ghobash argues, is how moderate Muslims will unite and find a voice that is true to Islam while actively and productively engaging in the modern world. Letters to a Young Muslim will explore how Arabs can provide themselves, their children, and their youth with a better chance of prosperity and peace in a globalized world, while attempting to explain the history and complications of the modern-day Arab landscape and how the younger generation can solve problems with extremists internally, contributing to overall world peace.

Contents:

The questions you face

The gray area

Landscapes of Islam

Wealth, opportunity, and repentance

Fragments of memory

The limits of what we can know

My first dark days

Who on Earth told you that?

What is true Islam?

"Islam is a religion of peace"

Crisis of authority

Responsibility

The perspective of an outsider

Path to fundamentalism

Violence

Role models

The challenge of freedom

Our complex entanglement with the west

Revelation and reason

Sermons and what to expect in the mosque on Fridays

Good deeds and bad deeds

The Quran and the search for knowledge

How we construct ourselves and the past

Men and women

Free speech and the silence within ourselves

A closer look at a moral conundrum

The Muslim individual.

Other Format:

Online version: Ghobash, Omar Saif, 1971- author. Letters to a young Muslim

ISBN:

9781250119841

1250119847

OCLC:

945745538