Letters to a young Muslim / Omar Saif Ghobash.

"Omar Saif Ghobash was born in 1971 in the United Arab Emirates--the same year the country was founded--to an Arab father and a Russian mother. After a traumatizing experience losing his father to a violent attack in 1977, when he was only six years old, Ghobash began to realize the severe violence...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghobash, Omar Saif, 1971- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ghobash, Omar Saif, > 1971-
Islam > 21st century.
Muslim youth.
Islamic sociology.
Ambassadors > United Arab Emirates > Biography.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
RELIGION > Islam > Theology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies.
Ambassadors.
Islam.
United Arab Emirates.
2000-2099
Autobiographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:xvii, 244 pages ; 20 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The questions you face
  • The gray 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.