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The Search for Beauty in Islam

A Conference of the Books
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 2005

Summary

Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. 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. Does Islamic law allow, or even call for, the gruesome acts of ugliness that have become so commonly associated with Islam today? Has Islam become a religion devoid of beauty, compassion and love?

Based on actual cases, this book tackles different issues and problems in each chapter through a post-9/11 lens, discussing such topics as marriage, divorce, parental rights, the position of women, the veil, sexual abuse, wife-beating, terrorism, bigotry, morality, law, and the role of tradition. Abou El Fadl argues that the rekindling of the forgotten value of beauty is essential for Muslims today to take back what has been lost to the fundamentalist forces that have denigrated their religion.

Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-1-122-34009-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4554-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
407
Product type
Book Titles

Table of contents

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    1. Acknowledgments No access
    2. Table of Contents No access
    3. Preface for the New Edition No access
    4. Introduction No access
  2. 1: The Conference of Books: The First Admission No access 1 - 4
  3. 2: The Night's Visitor No access 5 - 7
  4. 3: The Pirates of the Intellect No access 8 - 11
  5. 4: The Terror of Bigotry No access 12 - 13
  6. 5: The Civilization of the Book No access 14 - 17
  7. 6: The Interminable Conference No access 18 - 19
  8. 7: On Betrayal No access 20 - 21
  9. 8: A Prayer No access 22 - 24
  10. 9: Donkeys Carrying Books No access 25 - 27
  11. 10: To Murder the Soul No access 28 - 30
  12. 11: A One More Knowing No access 31 - 32
  13. 12: Women as an 'Awra No access 33 - 34
  14. 13: The Authoritative and the Authoritarian No access 35 - 36
  15. 14: On Obedience No access 37 - 39
  16. 15: To Suffer the Children No access 40 - 42
  17. 16: On Forms of Terror No access 43 - 44
  18. 17: Dial-a-Fatwa No access 45 - 46
  19. 18: On Knowledge No access 47 - 49
  20. 19: NYC Bombing No access 50 - 51
  21. 20: Umm Ahmad and the Judge No access 52 - 53
  22. 21: The Book Massacres No access 54 - 55
  23. 22: To Kill Parenthood No access 56 - 58
  24. 23: Killing Flies No access 59 - 60
  25. 24: Attending Jum'a No access 61 - 62
  26. 25: Burdens of a Generation No access 63 - 64
  27. 26: The Dialectics of an Apology No access 65 - 67
  28. 27: The Essential Individual No access 68 - 69
  29. 28: The Search for Beauty No access 70 - 72
  30. 29: Hegemony and Terrorism No access 73 - 75
  31. 30: Longing for Brotherhood No access 76 - 77
  32. 31: The Culture of the Mamnu' No access 78 - 80
  33. 32: On Being in Love No access 81 - 83
  34. 33: Lecturing on the Ugly No access 84 - 86
  35. 34: A Night with the Qalam No access 87 - 89
  36. 35: A Homily for Ibn Rushd No access 90 - 94
  37. 36: The Sunna of the Beloved No access 95 - 96
  38. 37: Colonizing Women No access 97 - 98
  39. 38: The Page No access 99 - 101
  40. 39: My Friend No access 102 - 104
  41. 40: The Truth of Silence No access 105 - 106
  42. 41: On the Beating of Wives No access 107 - 113
  43. 42: The Beating of Wives Revisited No access 114 - 122
  44. 43: In Praise of the Marginal No access 123 - 124
  45. 44: A Love Song No access 125 - 126
  46. 45: Migrating to the Shaykhs No access 127 - 131
  47. 46: On Revising Bigotry No access 132 - 136
  48. 47: An Encounter with the Shaykh (On the Delusions of the Fog) No access 137 - 140
  49. 48: Finding the Shaykh No access 141 - 146
  50. 49: The Book of Suspended Judgment No access 147 - 152
  51. 50: Dreaming of the Prophet No access 153 - 159
  52. 51: Women as a Colony No access 160 - 164
  53. 52: In the Footsteps of the Beloved No access 165 - 167
  54. 53: The State Between Two States (A Partnership with God) No access 168 - 175
  55. 54: The Pearls of Beauty (On Re-Finding Our Lost Civilization) No access 176 - 185
  56. 55: The Intellectual Refugee No access 186 - 189
  57. 56: When the Devil Speaks No access 190 - 192
  58. 57: Corrupting God's Book No access 193 - 202
  59. 58: The Remembrance No access 203 - 218
  60. 59: The Scholar's Road No access 219 - 228
  61. 60: Muhammad, the Child No access 229 - 230
  62. 61: The Revelation No access 231 - 232
  63. 62: Shades of Divine Light No access 233 - 234
  64. 63: The Restorations of the Night No access 235 - 236
  65. 64: The Exorcisms of the Night No access 237 - 239
  66. 65: The Unity of Strangers No access 240 - 241
  67. 66: The Testimony No access 242 - 244
  68. 67: Searching for the House of God No access 245 - 247
  69. 68: Incoherence No access 248 - 250
  70. 69: A Breath from God No access 251 - 253
  71. 70: Derangements No access 254 - 256
  72. 71: A Leader Among Us No access 257 - 260
  73. 72: When God Asks the Child No access 261 - 263
  74. 73: The Sites of Purity No access 264 - 267
  75. 74: Banning the Conference No access 268 - 271
  76. 75: 9/11 No access 272 - 273
  77. 76: Divine Threads No access 274 - 278
  78. 77: Embraced by the Beloved No access 279 - 280
  79. 78: The Shaykha's Endless Jihad No access 281 - 297
  80. 79: Waves and Rocks No access 298 - 315
  81. 80: The Lord of the Essence: A Fatwa on Dogs No access 316 - 330
  82. 81: Thieves of the Dark No access 331 - 334
  83. 82: Quietus No access 335 - 340
  84. 83: Notes of the Night No access 341 - 343
  85. 84: Notes of the Transformation No access 344 - 347
  86. 85: The First Admission No access 348 - 354
  87. Glossary of Terms No access 355 - 376
  88. Selected Biographies No access 377 - 388
  89. Index No access 389 - 406
  90. About the Author No access 407 - 407

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