StarAstrologer - Books : The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 297
EAN: 9780974524566
ISBN: 0974524565
Label: White Cloud Press
Manufacturer: White Cloud Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: White Cloud Press
Sales Rank: 68892
Studio: White Cloud Press
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This book is revolutionary. Under the quiet guise of portraying an all-American life, Sumbul Karam-ali demolishes stereotypes and presents her reading of Islam in a way that is fully compatible with the modern world, and with the good-enough life. Some version of this book could have been written by each of the 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide. Her writing, however, is easy to read, witty and informative, deliberate, and she bears witness to her own interpretation.
Over the past few years ... Read More
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Sumbul Ali-Karamali has written a prayer, and modestly called it a book. It is "The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing."
I don't care who you are or what faith tradition you follow, this book is necessary. I use the word necessary because it's the only one that fits. Really. This book should be required reading in America. Ms. Ali-Karamali has written gently, and repectfully, with humor, and also with an authoritative scholarly voice. I can't remember the last ... Read More
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Yawn.... The book supposedly addresses the so-called "difficult questions." I got this hoping to find a sincere analysis of important issues but found just another politically correct catalog of "you don't understand," "out of context" and "it is cultural" excuses. Not only that, it is full of inaccuracies relating to both the Quran and Islamic traditions (ahadith). For example, the word "lightly" she uses does not appear in the original when permitting the beating of women. It is added by modern ... Read More
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The title caught my eye.
The blurb promised that:
"The Muslim Next Door clears away the misconceptions about Islam and why they flourish -media distortion, confusion about what is cultural rather than religious, the language barrier, and the old tall tales that still persist after thirteen centuries."
Lofty promises, I thought.
I bought it expecting another one of those "here's why Muslims aren't so scary, we are proud Americans and proud Muslims at the ... Read More
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I could not put this book down and managed to read it in two days despite being the mother of a newborn! I appreciate the author's clarifications of which practices are rooted in the Qur'an and which are merely cultural practices that have been mistakenly attributed to Islam. Once you understand that there is a difference, it's easy to see that an individual can successfully be both a Muslim and an American. This book is well-researched, but that doesn't mean it's boring. This book was a joy to read and ... Read More
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