On Islam : a chronological record 2002-2018 / James V. Schall, S.J.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schall, James V., author.

Contributor:

J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects--Islam.

Violence.

Islam.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Physical Description:

263 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book is an account and evaluation by a renowned political philosopher and professor of several key and often shocking actions in the decade from 2006-2016. These incidents, in one way or another, had Islamic origins. The author discusses the difficulty that Europeans and Americans have in recognizing that this militancy is not just caused by "terrorists", as if that were some kind of independent movement or mind-set. Violence has a source. No one undertakes it without a cause that is worth, in his mind, the risk even of death. Islam is unique in its description of a world within Islam that supposedly lives peacefully by the law of Allah, and a world outside of this sphere which is a world at war with Islam. Fr. Schall also reflects on the similarity of Islamic voluntarist philosophy, which is necessarily used to account for the many contradictions found within the Qur'an, and the voluntarism that is found now present in most western societies and governments. The study of Islamic thinking and of western nominalism show common roots. Both, in different ways, end up with a world devoid of any natural order. His main concern is the abiding existence of Islam over time, a constant prodding to achieve the goal of submission of all to Allah as a political and cultural fact. This book is a record of Schall's own reaction and understanding of the incidents in which Allah was claimed as the reason for the crisis caused by various shootings, bombings, and killings.

Contents:

1 Hilaire Belloc on the "Apparently Unconvertible" Religion (April 2003) 15

2 On Islam (January 2004) 36

3 On Martyrdom and Suicide Bombers (August 2005) 40

4 Nine-Eleven (9/11) Revisited: Five Years Later (September 2006) 52

5 On Politics and Physics: Stanley Jaki on Science in Islam (Summer 2009) 66

6 The Ambiguity of Islam (November 2009) 77

7 A Jihadist Conquest? (November 2010) 86

8 On the Fragility of Islam (August 2011) 89

9 On Rereading Regensburg (September 2012) 92

10 On "Dialoguing" with Islam (July 2014) 104

11 "Try To Understand": Mosul (August 2014) 113

12 The Islamic State (September 2014) 116

13 Lessons of Paris 1/7 (January 2015) 125

14 On the Beheading of Christians (March 2015) 131

15 Dialogues without Resolutions (2015) 135

16 On the "Causes of Terrorism" (July 2015) 145

17 An "Act of War": Paris (November 2015) 159

18 The San Bernardino Shootings: Another View (December 2015) 169

19 Novel Reflections on Submission (December 2015) 175

20 Realism and Islam (April 2016) 183

21 Orlando in Hindsight (June 2016) 192

22 The Two Truths Revisited (January 2017) 204

23 Manchester, London, and the Goals of Islam (June 2017) 207

24 The Attacks in Barcelona Are Part of a Growing Worldwide War (August 2017) 218

25 On the Future of ISIS (2017) 226

26 What, Indeed. Is the Qur'an? (2018) 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781621641643

1621641643

OCLC:

1035850143