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Islam’s Predicament brings together Dr Mansur’s most important essays written over the last decade, previously published in various journals and media. Starting with “The War within Islam” he then goes on to “Three Muslim Perspectives”, ‘Of Danish Cartoons, Muslim Rage and the Bedouin State of Mind”, “Muslim on Muslim Violence”, “Keeping Faith in the Age of Islamist Terror” and much more.

About the Author

Dr Salim Mansur, a Muslim, was born in Calcutta, India and moved to Canada where he received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is a renowned voice in the debate of moderate vs. militant Islam, the author of numerous articles published in the Jerusalem Quarterly, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, The Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Arab Studies Quarterly, Middle East Quarterly, a frequent contributor to the Globe & Mail, The National Post, Toronto Sun, National Review online and others, a frequent commentator and analyst on radio and television, including the PBS Jim Lehrer Hour and in 2006, he received the American Jewish Congress’ Stephen S. Wise “Profile in Courage” award.



Table of Contents:
Foreword by George Jonas ? 11 Preface ? 15 Part One (Longer Pieces) 1. The War within Islam ? 19 2. Enlightenment’s Dusk? The West’s Decline and Islam’s Stormy Rise ? 31 3. Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience . 41 4. Three Muslim perspectives ? 53 5. Sadat’s Conversion and What the Qur’an Says About Jews in the Holy Land ? 63 6. Only Connect: Reconsidering Jewish-Muslim history . 79 7. Of Danish Cartoons, Muslim Rage and the Bedouin State of Mind ? 93 8. Pakistan As It Turns Sixty ? 111 9. Muslim on Muslim Violence: What Drives It? . 119 10. A Sufi saint’s response to Khomeini ? 131 11. Keeping faith in the age of Islamist terror ? 143 Part Two (Shorter Pieces) 12. A Bedouin state of mind ? 155 13. Where Mao meets Muhammad ? 159 14. The Ways of God and Man ? 163 15. A Portrait of Courage? 169 16. Reconciling revelation with reason ? 177 17. The father of all assassins ? 181 18. Osama’s godfathers? 185 19. Two solitudes that aren’t ? 189 20. Perverting Islam for politics ? 193 21. The cost of two denials ? 197 22. The Mideast: A cesspool of hate ? 199 23. Exposed in Gaza ? 203 24. A choice awaits Arab states ? 207 25. The intellectual defence of tyranny? 209 26. Reasonableness and rage ? 213 27. Muslim contradiction ? 215 28. Achieving freedom a fragile fight ? 219 29. The Malady of Islam? 221 30. Barbarians kill as West drifts ? 225 31. How the West was duped ? 227 32. Europe placates foes of freedom ? 229 33. Muslim world not a monolith ? 231 34. Getting a read on the Quran ? 233 35. Let’s not monkey with the Quran ? 235 36. Democracy breeds bravery ? 237 37. Democracy can heal ? 241 38. I’m sorry ? 245 39. In gratitude ? 247 40. We Muslims have work to do ? 249 References ? 253


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788121213271
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8121213274
  • Publisher Date: 2016
  • Edition: 1
  • No of Pages: 260

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