The search for beauty in Islam : a conference of the books / Khaled Abou El Fadl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-

Contributor:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Appreciation.

Islam.

Islam--Essence, genius, nature.

Sufism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2006.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through a ""conference of the books,"" an imagined conference of Muslim intellects from centuries past, Abou El Fadl examines the ugliness that has come to plague Muslim realities and attempts to reclaim what he maintains is a core moral value in Islam-the value of beauty. Abou El Fadl argues that the rekindling of the forgotten value of beauty is essential for Muslims today to take b

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface for the New Edition; Introduction; 1: The Conference of Books: The First Admission; 2: The Night's Visitor; 3: The Pirates of the Intellect; 4: The Terror of Bigotry; 5: The Civilization of the Book; 6: The Interminable Conference; 7: On Betrayal; 8: A Prayer; 9: Donkeys Carrying Books; 10: To Murder the Soul; 11: A One More Knowing; 12: Women as an 'Awra; 13: The Authoritative and the Authoritarian; 14: On Obedience; 15: To Suffer the Children; 16: On Forms of Terror; 17: Dial-a-Fatwa

18: On Knowledge19: NYC Bombing; 20: Umm Ahmad and the Judge; 21: The Book Massacres; 22: To Kill Parenthood; 23: Killing Flies; 24: Attending Jum'a; 25: Burdens of a Generation; 26: The Dialectics of an Apology; 27: The Essential Individual; 28: The Search for Beauty; 29: Hegemony and Terrorism; 30: Longing for Brotherhood; 31: The Culture of the Mamnu'; 32: On Being in Love; 33: Lecturing on the Ugly; 34: A Night with the Qalam; 35: A Homily for Ibn Rushd; 36: The Sunna of the Beloved; 37: Colonizing Women; 38: The Page; 39: My Friend; 40: The Truth of Silence; 41: On the Beating of Wives

42: The Beating of Wives Revisited43: In Praise of the Marginal; 44: A Love Song; 45: Migrating to the Shaykhs; 46: On Revising Bigotry; 47: An Encounter with the Shaykh (On the Delusions of the Fog); 48: Finding the Shaykh; 49: The Book of Suspended Judgment; 50: Dreaming of the Prophet; 51: Women as a Colony; 52: In the Footsteps of the Beloved; 53: The State Between Two States (A Partnership with God); 54: The Pearls of Beauty (On Re-Finding Our Lost Civilization); 55: The Intellectual Refugee; 56: When the Devil Speaks; 57: Corrupting God's Book; 58: The Remembrance

59: The Scholar's Road60: Muhammad, the Child; 61: The Revelation; 62: Shades of Divine Light; 63: The Restorations of the Night; 64: The Exorcisms of the Night; 65: The Unity of Strangers; 66: The Testimony; 67: Searching for the House of God; 68: Incoherence; 69: A Breath from God; 70: Derangements; 71: A Leader Among Us; 72: When God Asks the Child; 73: The Sites of Purity; 74: Banning the Conference; 75: 9/11; 76: Divine Threads; 77: Embraced by the Beloved; 78: The Shaykha's Endless Jihad; 79: Waves and Rocks; 80: The Lord of the Essence: A Fatwa on Dogs; 81: Thieves of the Dark

82: Quietus83: Notes of the Night; 84: Notes of the Transformation; 85: The First Admission; Glossary of Terms; Selected Biographies; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Originally published: Conference of the books. Lanham : University Press of America, 2001.

Print version record.

Related Work:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- Conference of the books.

ISBN:

979-82-16-40112-4

979-88-8187-790-3

1-122-34009-5

1-4616-4554-9

OCLC:

854971092