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Ramadan has started to pave out the road to reform and changes in the understanding of Islam in Muslim communities in the West...his pioneer work might be a catalyst for further reform in its brave demystification of the common notion of sharia as divine and of the classical scholars of Islam as more or less inerrant human beings, rather than individuals subjected to cultural and individual influences like all the rest of us. (Anne Sofie Roald, Contemporary Islam )
This text is wise and revelatory. Ramadan seeks to liberate Muslims so that they understand their faith not as a rigid rule book, but as an inseparable companion with whom you constantly converse. (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent )
This text is wise and revelatory. Ramadan seeks to liberate Muslims so that they understand their faith not as a rigid rule book, but as an inseparable companion with whom you constantly converse. (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent )
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"Thanks partly to Ramadan, Islam is on its way to becoming an integral part of Europe's religious landscape."
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The word "Islam" has often been translated as "submission" to God, or "entering into the peace" of God, for these are indeed the two senses provided by the declension of the root "s-l-m." Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In many ways this is potentially an important book. Ramadan's argument that western Muslims should seek deeper integration in their host societies, and their possibility of doing so in keeping with (as he argues), the Islamic scriptural and juridical traditions, will be something that both Muslims and westerners would have sympathy for. Ramadan rejects all reactionary dualisms (ones that divide the Islamic universe into abodes of Islam and war); he also presents an attractive vision of Islam in relation to human nature and the richness of its own sources. Much of this is again quite convincing.
There are problems though. Reading a work of this nature probably has to be done with an awareness of the controversies that Ramadan has himself aroused. Not all he says has been taken at face value. More importantly, the book is an almost impossibly difficult read. Books are meant to communicate ideas and much of Ramadan's book falls short here. There is no good reason (that I can see) for the book to be expressed so periphrastically, using very long sentences with the many parenthesis and sub-clauses. If what he is saying is important, it needs to be more accessible. Many people will give up with it.
There are problems though. Reading a work of this nature probably has to be done with an awareness of the controversies that Ramadan has himself aroused. Not all he says has been taken at face value. More importantly, the book is an almost impossibly difficult read. Books are meant to communicate ideas and much of Ramadan's book falls short here. There is no good reason (that I can see) for the book to be expressed so periphrastically, using very long sentences with the many parenthesis and sub-clauses. If what he is saying is important, it needs to be more accessible. Many people will give up with it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
He gives an excellent critique on Islam and the West. However, it is a heavy read so you have to stick with it. At times, did feel like I was reading a thesis.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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The author has been describe as a Muslim Martin Luther. That is an exaggeration as neither the secular nor the religious powers of the day are seeking his life as far as I know. But like Luther, Ramadan is a reformer who says that Muslims must adapt to be citizens in democratic countries in the West.
He divides Muslims into five groupings and he seems closest to liberal or rational Reformism. He wants Muslims to adapt and engage with Western culture and the political process. He does not believe in retreat to the ghetto nor in exclusively Muslim schools. Muslims can and should be good citizens in Western democracies. He rejects the traditional division of the world into abodes of Islam and of War. He says Muslims in the west are at liberty to practise and propagate their faith.
I found much of what he discussed to be relevant to Christians who see their faith as a way of life not mere religion. The way of spirituality and being distinctive from the surrounding culture are common concerns. I regret he did not develop the idea of co-belligerent action in his chapter on dialogue. My other regret is that he says little or nothing about the origins of the violent strands of Islam which threaten us today. But this book is a positive start to better relations with Muslims in the West.
He divides Muslims into five groupings and he seems closest to liberal or rational Reformism. He wants Muslims to adapt and engage with Western culture and the political process. He does not believe in retreat to the ghetto nor in exclusively Muslim schools. Muslims can and should be good citizens in Western democracies. He rejects the traditional division of the world into abodes of Islam and of War. He says Muslims in the west are at liberty to practise and propagate their faith.
I found much of what he discussed to be relevant to Christians who see their faith as a way of life not mere religion. The way of spirituality and being distinctive from the surrounding culture are common concerns. I regret he did not develop the idea of co-belligerent action in his chapter on dialogue. My other regret is that he says little or nothing about the origins of the violent strands of Islam which threaten us today. But this book is a positive start to better relations with Muslims in the West.
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This book is truly awful. It is vacuous propaganda, badly written and certainly not worth the time of anyone who is really interested in Islam.
Published on 1 May 2008 by roger
Hard-thinking man arrives at refreshing vision
Ramadan is a serious thinker, devoted to making a difference. He takes both his faith and his Western homeland seriously, and this for him is a single commitment to God and his... Read more
Published on 16 May 2007 by Brian Griffith
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