Two Billion Caliphs

A Vision of a Muslim Future

Two Billion Caliphs
Haroon Moghul
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Hardback
h216 x 140mm - 224pg
12 Apr 2022 US
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9780807024652
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Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrow. Islam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world-extremism, obscurantism, misogyny, bigotry. So why would so many people associate with such a fundamentalist faith? Unlike so many stale summaries, which restrict themselves to facts and figures, Haroon Moghul presents a deeply Muslim perspective on the world, providing Islam' s most compelling answers to our most compelling questions- Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens to us when we die? And from description, Moghul moves to prescription, aspiring to something outrageous and audacious. Two Billion Caliphs advocates for a way of being Muslim in the world, ready for today and prepared for tomorrow. Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam has been and what it is, who its heroes are, what its big ideas are, but not only to tell you about the past or the present, but to speak to the future. Two Billion Caliphs finds that Islam was a religion of intimacy, a faith rooted in and reaching for love, and that it could be and should be again. Fulfilling that destiny depends on the efforts of Muslims to reclaim their faith, rebuild their strength, and reimagine their future, on their own terms. Two Billion Caliphs offers Muslim thoughts for the age ahead, to create an interpretation Islam of and for days to come, the kind of religion the world' s Muslims deserve, with echoes of the confident faith Muslims once had. The destiny of Islam, then, is not, as so many prefer to argue, a reformation. It is a counter-reformation. A restoration of what once was.
"This is a book that only Haroon Moghul could write. It is honest and hopeful, beautiful and painful, visionary and personal. It is at once a history of Islam and a guidebook to your soul. There are paragraphs so perfect, I read them aloud to family and friends. " -Eboo Patel, author of We Need to Build "In his stunning new Two Billion Caliphs, Haroon Moghul describes the Hagar of sacred text as representing ' a kind of ambling Islam. ' In that same spirit, Moghul' s work ambles and careens across time, space, theology, and intimate self-discovery, to locate a new take on Islam. Moghul' s vision of a collective, personal, loving, and meaningful faith-born of his own frailty, curiosity, and longing-requires nothing less than the opening of a spiritual vein. What emerges is honest and transformational and desperately needed, in all of our conversations around religion. " -Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate "In this touching, moving, and thought-provoking book, Haroon Moghul boldly proclaims, and elegantly articulates, the big paradigm shift desperately needed in Islamic thinking: Muslims should let go of the political ' caliphate,' with all its religious rigidity, fury, and oppressiveness. Instead, they should revive the original Quranic ' caliphate' : the wisdom and moral agency within the heart of every human being. I cannot applaud him more. " -Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow on Islam and modernity at the Cato Institute, author of Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Haroon Moghul is a regular commentator on Islam and public affairs. He has appeared on all major US networks and many international news networks. His articles have been published by numerous leading media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, TIME, Foreign Policy, The Guardian and Al Jazeera, among many others. Haroon is also an academic who has authored several books, including How To Be A Muslim- An American Story.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780807024652
Published: 12 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 224

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