| #504706 in Books | Granta UK | 2005-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.60 x.85 x5.10l,.55 | File type: PDF | 354 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Islam for anyone with a passion for intellectual exhilaration|By E. Connor|I'm a non-Muslim intrigued by the seeming contradictions between Islam according to its peaceable adherents, Islam according to Western detractors, and also Islam according to violent extremist Islamists.
I was prompted to buy this wonderfully stimulating (and humorous book) by what one review|From Publishers Weekly|Sardar has written a curious, often amusing travelogue of his quest for understanding and the Muslims he has encountered along his journeys. Pakistani by birth (in 1951) but raised in Britain, Sardar studied physics, but got sidetracked ea
Raised in Pakistan, Ziauddin Sardar learned the Koran at his mother’s knee. As a young student in London, he embarked on a quest to grasp the meaning and contemporary relevance of his religion and, hopefully, to find “paradise.” After experimenting with the mystical branch of Islam, Sufism, and with classical Islam, he set off on extensive travels through the Muslim world. Along the way, he came to accept that he might never reach paradise, realizing th...
You easily download any file type for your device.Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim | Ziauddin Sardar. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
