Two billion caliphs : a vision of a Muslim future / Haroon Moghul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moghul, Haroon, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moghul, Haroon.

Muslims--United States--Biography.

Muslims.

Islam--Essence, genius, nature.

Islam.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrow Islam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world--extremism, obscurantism, misogyny, bigotry. So why would so many people associate with such a fundamentalist faith? Two Billion Caliphs advocates for a way of being Muslim in the world, ready for today and prepared for tomorrow. Unlike stale summaries, which restrict themselves to facts and figures, Haroon Moghul presents a deeply Muslim perspective on the world, providing Islamic answers to universal questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens to us when we die? And from description, Moghul moves to prescription, aspiring to something outrageous and audacious. Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam has been and what it is, who its heroes are, what its big ideas are, but not only to tell you about the past or the present, but to speak to the future. Two Billion Caliphs finds that Islam was a religion of intimacy, a faith rooted in and reaching for love, and that it could be and should be again. Fulfilling that destiny depends on the efforts of Muslims to reclaim their faith, rebuild their strength, and reimagine their future, on their own terms. Two Billion Caliphs offers Muslim thoughts for the age ahead, to create an interpretation Islam of and for days to come, the kind of religion the world's Muslims deserve, with echoes of the confident faith Muslims once had. The destiny of Islam, then, is not, as so many prefer to argue, a reformation. It is a counter-reformation. A restoration of what once was.

Contents:

A Note for the Reader

Prologue

Introduction: An Embarrassment of Riches

1. Yelling at the Converted

2. What's the Big Idea?

3. Standing for Torah at Sinai

4. Anakin Skywalker Is the Devil

5. Flood from a Machine

6. Twilight of the Idols

7. Friends, Romans, Countrymen

8. What's Past Is Prologue

9. Adam and Eve and Eve and Eve and Eve

10. The Fable of the Stable Theocracy

11. The Empty Throne

12. The Case for the Caliphate

13. The End

14. Sermon on the Mount

15. Why I Am Not a Sufi

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780807024669

080702466X

Publisher Number:

40031086775

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.