A slender but ambitious treatise designed to make sense of Islam to young Western readers.
A valuable addition to a growing public discourse. . . . As a liberal Muslim voice of reconciliation, heartbreak, and compassion, it is priceless.
Islam Explained
Translated by Franklin Philip
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$13.95 / £8.95
—RICHARD EDER, LOS ANGELES TIMES
In an accessible question-and-answer format, Islam Explained clarifies the main tenets of Islam, the major landmarks in Islamic history, and the current politics of Islamic fundamentalism. The book also sheds light on the key words that have come to dominate the media—terrorist, crusade, jihad, fundamentalist, fatwa—offering lucid and balanced explanations, not only for youngsters but also for the general reader.
Islam Explained is at once an essential introduction to one of the world’s great religions and a cry for tolerance and understanding in deeply troubled times.
Winner of the 1994 Prix Maghreb, Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1971. A novelist, essayist, critic, and poet, he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Répubblica, El Pais, and Panorama. His novels include The Sacred Night, which received the Prix Goncourt in 1986, Corruption (The New Press), and This Blinding Absence of Light (The New Press). Franklin Philip is winner of the 1989 Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation for The Statue Within: An Autobiography. He lives in Paris.
Spring 2004
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5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 128 pages
978-1-56584-897-9
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