Staff Writer - AGI Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - Rome, Italy
Saturday, October 28, 2006
A publication on current events will be coming out in the following days in bookstores for Electa: ISLAM. The book is published as part of the series "Dictionaries of Religions."
The author is an authoritative scholar, Gabriele Mandel Khan, who was entrusted with the task of revealing all the mysteries that surround Islam, its doctrine and its rituals.
From the birth of Mohammed to today the book clearly investigates the theological, dogmatic, symbolic and esoteric contents of Islam and its sacred text, the Koran; the political and cultural function that Islam has had in history through the life and the actions of his main members and the extraordinary beauty of the monuments and works of art created in the Islamic world;
The confessions and movements that animate and divide the Muslim group (from Sunnis to Shiites, from the more fundamentalist sects to the mystic route of Sufism);
The practices and norms that influence the life of every Muslim such as the profession of faith, prayer, legal charity, fasting during the month of Ramadan, the pilgrimage to Mecca;
the conquests of the mind in geography, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture and the main art forms such as ceramics, calligraphy, textiles, architecture, literature and poetry all born within Islam.
Obscurantism, extremism, fundamentalism. These are the first words that come to our minds when we think of Islam and the Islamic society. But few of us know how much this religion in its theological and doctrinal foundations is open, tolerating, respectful of the individual and also attentive to the feminine world.
In fact how many know that Mohammed was introduced to the prophetic mission by the Archangel Gabriel, that in the Koran there is no order than limits an individual's free choice of the woman's right to choice in terms of divorce, abortion, use of the veil, that terms such as Shari 'a, Fatwa and Jihad have different meanings compared to those spread by the media and that we habitually use?
If the dramatic situations of our times tend to accentuate the divisions between faiths, cultures and people, this book highlights the common roots between the three biggest monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and the influence the Islamic culture has had in the spreading of knowledge, in the evolution of art, and the foundation and development of the sciences.
The author is an authoritative scholar, Gabriele Mandel Khan, who was entrusted with the task of revealing all the mysteries that surround Islam, its doctrine and its rituals.
From the birth of Mohammed to today the book clearly investigates the theological, dogmatic, symbolic and esoteric contents of Islam and its sacred text, the Koran; the political and cultural function that Islam has had in history through the life and the actions of his main members and the extraordinary beauty of the monuments and works of art created in the Islamic world;
The confessions and movements that animate and divide the Muslim group (from Sunnis to Shiites, from the more fundamentalist sects to the mystic route of Sufism);
The practices and norms that influence the life of every Muslim such as the profession of faith, prayer, legal charity, fasting during the month of Ramadan, the pilgrimage to Mecca;
the conquests of the mind in geography, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture and the main art forms such as ceramics, calligraphy, textiles, architecture, literature and poetry all born within Islam.
Obscurantism, extremism, fundamentalism. These are the first words that come to our minds when we think of Islam and the Islamic society. But few of us know how much this religion in its theological and doctrinal foundations is open, tolerating, respectful of the individual and also attentive to the feminine world.
In fact how many know that Mohammed was introduced to the prophetic mission by the Archangel Gabriel, that in the Koran there is no order than limits an individual's free choice of the woman's right to choice in terms of divorce, abortion, use of the veil, that terms such as Shari 'a, Fatwa and Jihad have different meanings compared to those spread by the media and that we habitually use?
If the dramatic situations of our times tend to accentuate the divisions between faiths, cultures and people, this book highlights the common roots between the three biggest monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and the influence the Islamic culture has had in the spreading of knowledge, in the evolution of art, and the foundation and development of the sciences.
Gabriele Mandel Khan
Islam
Price € 20,00
pages 335
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