The Trouble with Islam Today
A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change
The Trouble with Islam Today is an open letter from award-winning journalist Irshad Manji to concerned citizens worldwide–Muslim or not. The book is a lively wake-up call, a demand for honesty and change in Islamic countries and the West. With guts and sincerity Manji insists that readers face some of the most important questions troubling the world today.
A self-proclaimed Muslim Refusenik, Manji exposes the disturbing cornerstones of Islam as it is widely practiced: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism and uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, superior manifesto of God. But the book begins with and repeatedly returns to Manji’s own experience of Islam, from a teenage debate with a madressa teacher who couldn’t explain to her why girls weren’t…
$22.95
August 23, 2005
Irshad Manji, winner of Oprah's first Chutzpah Award, directs the Moral Courage Project at New York University. Her #1 Canadian bestseller, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, is published in more than 30 languages. In countries that ban her book, Manji reaches readers by posting free translations on her website. The Arabic, Urdu and Persian editions have been downloaded over 1.5 million times. Her Emmy-nominated documentary, "Faith Without Fear," is also being watched in the Muslim underground worldwide. Manji is currently writing her next book: a leadership guide to advance the 21st-century reformation within Islam.
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