On Being a Muslim Finding a Religious Path in the World Today

Name: On Being a Muslim Finding a Religious Path in the World Today
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ISBN: 9781851686919

ISBN-10: 1851686916

ISBN-13: 9781851686919

Edition: 2009

Authors: Farid Esack

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Dr Farid Esack has an international reputation as a Muslim scholar, speaker and human rights activist. He has lectured widely on religion and Islamic studies and also served as a Commissioner for Gender Equality with Nelson Mandela's government. He has authored numerous Islamic books and is currently the Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



On Being with Allah


Can Allah be Supremely Indifferent?


Between Allah and a Neurotic Self


Allah: More than an Ideological Appendage


Words and Works for a Window


More to the Rituals than Motions?


Don't Forget to Marinate the Meat!


Ramadan: When Boats are Safe in the Harbour



On Being with Myself


Freedom Isn't Free


Dying by the Inches


And the Truth Shall Set You Free


Who Says I'm not Important?


Life! Life! (Or is it 'Wife! Wife!'?)



On Being with You


Beyond the Masks


Why Two Ears and One Mouth?


Why Does He Take so Long with the Meat?


To Dump or Not to Dump?


Though Poverty Became their Lot


My Brother's Flesh on the Menu?



On Being a Social Being


Revelation or Revolution?


The Reader's Digest Islam


Who's in Charge Around Here?


On Building Burdens


Wanna Have Some Power?



On Being with the Gendered Other


On Mandela and Women


The Gender Jihad


It's Just a Dark Blob Out There


The Fall of Man


Calling all Married Couples!


The Courage to be Mad



On the Self in a World of Otherness


Knock, Knock - It's the Malboet (and He's Knocking for Me!)


Go Slowly With the Mud!


On Ants and Elephants


Long Live Mrs Batista!


Access to our Waterholes?


The Jews! Watch Our For the Jews!



On Being a New South African Muslim


On the Brink of Freedom?


Tell Us About Your Glasses


Switch Off If You Get Turned on!


Crime Out There? Or in Here?


On Murdering Murderers


Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers?


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index