Review of Who Speaks for Islam? - Foreword Reviews: Book.
Who speaks for Islam?: what a billion Muslims really think. By J. L. Esposito and D. Mogahed, New York: Gallup Press, 2007.
Who Speaks for Islam? is about this silenced majority. This book is the product of the Gallup World Poll’s massive, multiyear research study. As part of this groundbreaking project, Gallup conducted tens of thousands of interviews with residents of more than 35 nations that are predominantly Muslim or have significant Muslim populations.
Best books written by scholars of Islamic Studies. Score A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation—one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine.
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He is the author of many books including The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (2003), The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty (2004) and An Historical Atlas of Islam (Edited, 2002). Like his previous works, the book under review is more about history than contemporary politics.
The impoverishment of which MacIntyre speaks here is one which Islam excels at eradicating. What the individual posited by liberal theory lacks is an effective ideology to provide understanding and purpose on the basis of which communities can be established.