Omar Saif Ghobash

Letters to a Young Muslim

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Produktbeschreibung

In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9781250119858
• ISBN-10: 1250119855
• Artikelnr.: 48064343

Autorenporträt

OMAR SAIF GHOBASH is the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. In addition to his post in Moscow, Ambassador Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and is a founding trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in collaboration with the Booker Prize in London. Ambassador Ghobash studied law at Oxford and math at the University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

The Questions You Face
The Grey Area
Landscapes of Islam
Wealth, Opportunity, and Repentance
Fragments of Memory
The Limits of What We Can Know
My First Dark Days
Who on Earth Told You That?
What Is True Islam?
"Islam Is a Religion of Peace"
Crisis of Authority
Responsibility
The Perspective of an Outsider
Path to Fundamentalism
Violence
Role Models
The Challenge of Freedom
Our Complex Entanglement with the West
Revelation and Reason
Sermons and What to Expect in the Mosque on Fridays
Good Deeds and Bad Deeds
The Quran and the Search for Knowledge
How We Construct Ourselves and the Past
Men and Women
Free Speech and the Silence Within Ourselves
A Closer Look at a Moral Conundrum
The Muslim Individual