The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam

Ziauddin Sardar · Merryl Wyn Davies

квіт. 2007 р. · New Internationalist

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This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war.

Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?

Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.

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Ziaddin sardar is a writer, broadcaster and cultural critic. He is is the author of Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures, The Ziauddin Sardar Reader and numerous other books. He is co-author, with Davis, of the bestseller Why do People Hate America? Merryl Wyn Davis is a writer and anthropologist and former producer of religious programs for the BBC. She is the author of Introducing Anthropology and Knowing One Another: shaping an Islamic anthropology. She is co-author, with Sardar, of the bestseller Why do People Hate America?