If more people were as brave and honest as Michael Muhammad Knight when it came to their religion the world would be in far better shape.Matt Wallace, author of Savage Legion, first entered my radar with his seven wonderful ‘Sin …Harar in Ethiopia is considered the fourth holiest Muslim city, and it's here that Knight discovers some of the strangest forms his religion can take with its mixture of ancestor worship and animalism. However, to my mind, there has never been a more honest book written about the nature of religion and an individual's relationship to a belief system. In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight — whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam — wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. When author Michael Muhammad Knight was a teenager he converted to Islam in order to break as much as possible with his white supremacist father. While initially he feels superior to them because he's not allowing himself to be led blindly, that gradually changes to guilt because he can't shake the feeling that maybe that's what faith is really all about.Knight has an uncanny ability to write about what others would consider insanely complicated issues with a clarity and straightforwardness that make you wonder what all the fuss is about. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, With each site we not only learn about the various figures in the history of the faith, we find out what role they have played in the split behind the formation of its two major sects, Sunni and Shi'a. It will certainly ease you to see guide Journey To The End Of Islam Michael While strict Islamic practice forbids the worship of graves or humans — even worship of the Prophet Muhammad is prohibited — that doesn't stop people from praying to their local saints or performing other acts of worship that would be frowned on in other places.Who is he to feel superior when they can accept the word of God so easily, but he has to question everything?
For the author they came to represent a human's lower self, our ugly spirit which only thinks of fulfilling physical needs like food and sex.Have you ever noticed how the person who converts to a new religion, or philosophy of any kind, tends to be a whole lot more fanatical about their new faith than those who were born into it? In the latter case it's no wonder a convert becomes doctrinarian; it's such a relief to have order in their lives they'll follow the rules without questioning or doubting their necessity. Can you be a Muslim and not accept those passages in The Book? Leggi «Journey to the End of Islam» di Michael Muhammad Knight disponibile su Rakuten Kobo. Or are you something else when you do that? However, when you consider the brief descriptions of his childhood he offers readers in his book Journey To The End Of Islam, published by Soft Skull Press In Pakistan there's the added confusion of the mystical branch of Islam thrown into the mix as he visits the tombs of a variety of Sufi saints. Yet, blind obedience means accepting verses in the Qur'an that allow a man to beat his wife and other things that he can't accept.
Journey To The End Of Islam Michael Muhammad Knight Journey To The End Of When somebody should go to the book stores, search establishment by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in fact problematic. In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight — whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam — wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Some people adopt a faith in the hope of finding answers to questions they have about life, others because they are desperate to find a place they fit in, while others are looking for something to make order out of any chaos they have lived through. However, the major focus of the book is on his internal debate; the fight between his intellect and his heart over matters of faith and politics and how to separate the two.In Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia Knight takes us on visits to various shrines, tombs, and other sites of holy and historical significance to Islam. In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight — whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam — wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. We not only learn about the history of the religion and the schisms that have divided the faith almost since its beginnings along the way, but Knight also provides us with an overview of the uniquely American versions of Islam that were fostered by Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, the Nubian Islamic Hebrews, and the Five Percenters.
Are they right and he's wrong?