On the other : a Muslim view / Rusmir Mahmutcehajic ; translated by Desmond Maurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahmutćehajić, Rusmir, 1948-

Contributor:

Maurer, Desmond.

Series:

Abrahamic dialogues series.

Abrahamic dialogues

Standardized Title:

Malo znanja. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious tolerance--Islam.

Religious tolerance.

Violence--Religious aspects--Islam.

Violence.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timely book by a leading European exponent of Muslim intellectual tradition, On the Other: A Muslim View explores of the foundations of Islamic thought on human nature, our place in the cosmos, and our proper relationship to the divine, based on peace, knowledge, love, beauty, humility, and respect for and acceptance of others and difference. Demonstrating how poor cultural translation of core terms has contributed to a distorted picture of Islam, the author provides systematic explication of the most important concepts and beliefs of the Muslim tradition, as well as interpretation of the sy

Contents:

I, thou, and he

The one and the many

The stranger

Self-knowledge

The sense-of-self and the debt

Being-at-peace

Faith

Beauty

The hour

Humanity

The other and the different

Intolerance I

Intolerance II

The Muslim

The universality of prophecy

The nation of the just

Dialogue

Finding fault with others and the self

Free will and the covenant

Afterword: the text and its power.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8232-4823-2

OCLC:

742517401