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Ed Husain

The House of Islam

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A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies of Islam and the inner psyche of the Muslim world from the bestselling author of The Islamist

'Islam began as a stranger,' said the Prophet Mohammed, 'and one day, it will again return to being a stranger.'
The gulf between Islam and the West is widening. A faith rich with strong values and traditions, observed by nearly two billion people across the world, is seen by the West as something to be feared rather than understood. Sensational headlines and hard-line policies spark enmity, while ignoring the feelings, narratives and perceptions that preoccupy Muslims today.
Wise and authoritative, The House of Islam seeks to provide entry to the minds and hearts of Muslims the world over. It introduces us to the fairness, kindness and mercy of Mohammed; the aims of sharia law, through commentary on scripture, to provide an ethical basis to life; the beauty of Islamic art and the permeation of the divine in public spaces; and the tension between mysticism and literalism that still threatens the House of Islam.
The decline of the Muslim world and the current crises of leadership mean that a glorious past, full of intellectual nobility and purpose, is now exploited by extremists and channelled into acts of terror. How can Muslims confront the issues that are destroying Islam from within, and what can the West do to help work towards that end?
Ed Husain expertly and compassionately guides us through the nuances of Islam and its people, contending that the Muslim world need not be a stranger to the West, nor its enemy, but a peaceable ally.
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2018
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    Probably the most prominent and highly venerated female saint of early Islam was Rabia Adawiyya (d. 801) from the Iraqi city of Basra. One night she was walking with a burning torch of fire in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When people asked her where she was going, Rabia replied: ‘I want to set heaven aflame and extinguish the fire of hell.’ She wanted believers to worship Allah for and through love, not out of considerations of reward and punishment.
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    ‘Knowledge and wisdom are the lost properties of the believer,’ taught Imam Ali, ‘so seek them even if they be with infidels.’
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    His entire twenty-three-year career as a prophet calling people to God added up to 8,142 days. Of these, he spent seventy days, or 0.9 per cent, on military expeditions, and of those seventy days, only ten days were spent in actual fighting, representing just 0.1 per cent of his entire life’s work in God’s service.1
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