The search for beauty in Islam a conference of the books - Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-; Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
The conference of books : the first admission -- The night's visitor -- The pirates of the intellect -- The terror of bigotry -- The civilization of the book -- The interminable conference -- On betrayal -- A prayer -- Donkeys carrying books -- To murder the soul -- A one more knowing -- Women as an 'Awra -- The authoritative and the authoritarian -- On obedience -- To suffer the children -- On forms of terror -- Dial-a-farwa -- On knowledge -- NYC bombing -- Umm Ahmad and the judge -- The book massacres -- To kill parenthood -- Killing flies -- Attending Jum'a -- Burdens of a generation -- The dialectics of an apology -- The essential individual -- The search for beauty -- Hegemony and terrorism -- Longing for brotherhood -- The culture of the Mamnu' -- On being in love -- Lecturing on the ugly -- A night with the Qalam -- A homily for Ibn Rushd -- The Sunna of the beloved -- Colonizing women -- The page -- My friend -- The truth of silence -- On the beating of wives -- The beating of wives revisited -- In praise of the marginal -- A love song -- Migrating to the Shaykhs -- On revising bigotry -- An encounter with the Shaykh (on the delusions of the fog) -- Finding the Shaykh -- The book of suspended judgment -- Dreaming of the prophet -- Women as a colony -- In the footsteps of the beloved -- The state between two states (a partnership with God) -- The pearls of beauty (on re-finding our lost civilization) -- The intellectual refugee -- When the devil speaks -- Corrupting God's book -- The remembrance -- The scholar's road -- Muhammad, the child -- The revelation -- Shades of divine light -- The restorations of the night -- The exorcisms of the night -- The unity of strangers -- The testimony -- Searching for the house of God -- Incoherence -- A breath from God -- Derangements -- A leader among us -- When God asks the child -- The sites of purity -- Banning the conference -- 9/11 -- Divine threads -- Embraced by the beloved -- The Shaykha's endless jihad -- Waves and rocks -- The lord of the essence : a fatwa on dogs -- Thieves of the dark -- Quietus -- Notes of the night -- Notes of the transformation -- The first admission -- Glossary of terms.
Originally published: Conference of the books. Lanham : University Press of America, 2001.
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Islam -- Appreciation; Islam -- Essence, genius, nature; Sufism; Islamismo; Islamismo; RELIGION / Islam / Theology; Electronic books