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Views of a moderate Muslim.(People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West)(Book review)
People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West, by Waleed Aly; Picador, 2007, $32.95.
WESLEY COLLEGE has done its job well. This prestigious Melbourne private school has produced another star graduate in the Muslim lawyer Waleed Aly. Accused by an internet blogger of implementing "slow-motion Sharia", Aly has become an articulate spokesman for Islam in Australia. His People Like Us has a commendable goal--to help bridge the gap of understanding between Islam and the West. The even-handed approach on some controversial issues is a delight. He is not afraid to take the knife to a few sacred cows, both "Western" and "Islamic". (He questions the ...
- Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United...
- Magazine article from: National Review February 27, 2006 700+ words
Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United States and writing about Islam as he sees it. He has been circulating...
- Put paid to said.(Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's...
- Magazine article from: National Review Daniels, Anthony April 7, 2008 700+ words
...Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism, by Ibn Warraq (Prometheus, 556 pp., $29.95...immensely erudite and clear-minded Ibn Warraq--the author of the celebrated and...are essentialized. Some might say that Ibn Warraq has picked an easy target: Said's...
- Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly Mansur, Salim March 22, 2006 700+ words
...Apostates Speak Out. Edited by Ibn Warraq. New York: Prometheus Books...pp. $28. In Leaving Islam, Ibn Warraq has assembled a compelling list...been documented or investigated. Ibn Warraq's breakthrough collection of...
- The Quest for the Historical Muhammad. (Reviews of Books).
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Afsaruddin, Asma October 1, 2001 700+ words
...Muhammad. Edited, with translations, by IBN WARRAQ. Amherst, N.Y.: PROMETHEUS, 2000...editor hiding behind the nom de plume of Ibn Warraq (lit. "son of a copyist"). a name...radd consists of two essays composed by Ibn Warraq and fellow zindiq Ibn Rawandi (another...
- Wrong from first to last: the charlatanism of Edward Said.(Culture)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Warby, Michael September 1, 2008 700+ words
IBN WARRAQ is an apostate and a convert--an apostate...peace", naturally he uses a pseudonym. Ibn Warraq displays the enthusiasm of the convert...Enemies, 2006) has written, reviewing Ibn Warraq's book along with another demolition...
- The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Middle East Policy Schwanitz, Wolfgang G. September 22, 2007 700+ words
...by Andrew G. Bostom. Foreword by Ibn Warraq. Prometheus Books, 2005.759 pages...ahl adh-dhimma) under Islamic rule. Ibn Warraq (a pseudonym) says in his foreword...commentators on Islamic manuscripts. Ibn Warraq stresses that dealing with jihad could...
- The Quest for the Historical Muhammad.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies Teipen, Alfons H. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...for the Historical Muhammad. Edited by Ibn Warraq. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000...that lies between these two extremes. Ibn Warraq's work represents scholarship of the...both the text and the endnotes. While Ibn Warraq's selection includes some of the more...
- Why I Am Not a Muslim.
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Wells, G.A. December 22, 1995 700+ words
...scrutinized uncompromisingly. Moreover, Ibn Warraq's criticisms are no idiosyncrasies...same as belief in only one god. But Ibn Warraq reminds us that monotheism can readily...features become implausibly magnified. Ibn Warraq's chapter on "The Problem of the Sources...
