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This is an excellent informed source for any western reader who wishes to understand the actual view of Islam in the world and non-Muslim societies.  The view of the small minority involved in “radical Islam” and their violent approaches toward both Muslims and non-Muslims get most of the attention from the rather uninformed popular press in the west.

This renowned Muslim scholar speaks in terms westerners can understand, and writes from a broad perspective to analyze and critique the various movements acting in violence in the name of Islam.  He shows us how these aberrant groups contrast with the vast majority of Islam, how they have perverted history and selectively chosen certain aspects that focus on their control or others.

You will see here how these usurpers are seen by most who constitute the vast majority of followers of Islam.  El Fadl discusses what the mainline Muslim majority need to do to reclaim their faith and project the broader traditional view of Islam and its practices and teachings, in order to inform westerners and reclaim their movement from the violent usurpers.

El Fadl demonstrates clear and detailed knowledge of the Qur'an and Sunna and historical factors and streams of thought and politics in the Muslim world.  Americans need to hear this, and realize that the "Islam" they fear is not the Islam of the great host of Muslims around the world.  

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First reading notes written 17 March 2011
Reviewed on Amazon 30 December 2011
Last edited 7 January 2013

Orville Boyd Jenkins, EdD, PhD
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