04138nam a2200529Ka 4500 ocn842919935 OCoLC 20200709055759.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130514r20062001mdu o 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781461645542 (electronic bk.) 1461645549 (electronic bk.) 0742550931 9780742550933 074255094X 9780742550940 (OCoLC)842919935 553626 (N$T) BP163 .A258 2006eb REL 037060 bisacsh 297.2 22 N$TA Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- The search for beauty in Islam [electronic resource] : a conference of the books / Khaled Abou El Fadl. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006. 1 online resource (xx, 407 p.) Originally published: Conference of the books. Lanham : University Press of America, 2001. Includes index. 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. Description based on print version record. Islam Appreciation. Islam Essence, genius, nature. Sufism. Islamismo. Islamismo. embne RELIGION / Islam / Theology bisacsh Electronic books. Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- Conference of the books. Print version: Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- Search for beauty in Islam. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006 0742550931 (DLC) 2005018902 (OCoLC)60835380 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=553626 Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018902.html EBSCOhost EBSC 553626 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52827 52827