Persian Edition
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The Quran, N.J. Dawood, trans. (London: Penguin Classics, 1956 and updated 1999)
Ajami, Fouad Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998)
Ali, Tariq The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (London:Verso, 2002)
Ali,Tariq Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (London: Chatto, 1992)
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin After Multiculturalism (London:The Foreign Policy Centre, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism (New York: Ballantine, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen Islam: A Short History (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen "Was it Inevitable?" in James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds. How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs/Council on Foreign Relations, 2001)
Armstrong, Sally Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan (Toronto: Penguin, 2002)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 250
Asfour, Gaber " Osama Bin Laden: Financier of Intolerant ‘Desert’ Islam," New Perspectives Quarterly (Winter 2002)
Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What this Means for Democracy (New York:Times Books, 1995)
Barlas, Asma "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (Austin,Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002)
Buckman, Robert Can We Be Good Without God? Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe (Toronto: Penguin, 2000)
Cohen, Mark Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
Duran, Khalid Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House/American Jewish Committee, 2001)
El Fadl, Khaled Abou Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law,Authority and Women (Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2001)
El Fadl, Khaled Abou The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), edited by Joshua Cohen and Ian Lague for Boston Review
Feiler, Bruce Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (New York:William Morrow, 2002)
Firestone, Reuven Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House/American Jewish Committee, 2001)
Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999)
Al-Ghazaly, (Sheikh) Muhammad The Future of Islam Outside its Land (available in English at: www.ghazaly.net)
Halevi, Yossi Klein At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (New York:William Morrow, 2001)
Hartman, (Rabbi) David A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices within Judaism (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 251
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Islam 2000 (Beltsville, Maryland: Amana,1997)
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Islam: The Alternative (Reading, U.K.: Garnet, 1993)
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Religion on the Rise: Islam in the Third Millennium (Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 2001)
Hourani, Albert A History of the Arab Peoples (New York:Warner Books, 1991)
Huntington, Samuel The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996)
Ignatieff, Michael Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (Toronto: Penguin, 1994)
Kepel, Gilles Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Lester, Toby "What Is the Quran?" The Atlantic Monthly (January 1999)
Lewis, Bernard The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
Lewis, Bernard Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (New York:W.W. Norton, 1986)
Lewis, Bernard What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Maalouf, Amin In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001)
Mackey, Sandra Passion & Politics: The Turbulent World of the Arabs (New York: Plume, 1994)
Mackey, Sandra The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Mahbubani, Kishore Can Asians Think? (Toronto: Key Porter, 2001)
Makiya, Kanan Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World (New York:W.W. Norton, 1993)
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics (Boulder:Westview Press, 1999)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 252
Menocal, Maria Rosa The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Boston: Little, Brown, 2002)
Morris, Benny Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 (New York:Vintage, 2001)
Naipaul,V. S. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (New York: Random House, 1998)
Naipaul, V. S. "Our Universal Civilization," in The Writer and the World: Essays (New York: Knopf, 2002)
Nasrin, Taslima Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood (South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2002)
Nasrin, Taslima Shame: A Novel (Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1997)
Pearlman, Maurice Mufti of Jerusalem: The Story of Haj Amin el Husseini (London:V. Gollancz, 1947)
Pipes, Daniel The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996)
Pipes, Daniel Militant Islam Reaches America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Ramadan, Tariq To Be a European Muslim (Markfield, Leicester,England:The Islamic Foundation, 1999)
Raphael, George "A is for Arabs," salon.com (January 8, 2002—archived)
Rubin, Barry and Judith Colp Rubin, eds. Anti-American Terrorism: A Documentary Reader (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Rushdie, Salman Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (New York: Random House, 2002)
Sachedina, Abdulaziz The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Sacks, (Rabbi) Jonathan The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (London, New York: Continuum, 2002)
Said,Edward Covering Islam:How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (New York: Pantheon, 1981)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 253
Said, Edward Orientalism (New York:Vintage Books, 1979)
Salem, Ali A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors (Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 2001)
Sampson, Cynthia and Douglas Johnston, eds. Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994)
Sardar, Ziauddin "Islam: Resistance and Reform," New Internationalist (May 2002)
Shehadeh, Raja Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine (South Royalton,Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2002)
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed The Second Message of Islam (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987)
Tibi, Bassam The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
Wadud,Amina Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Warraq, Ibn, ed. Leaving Islam:Apostates Speak Out (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003)
Warraq, Ibn Why I Am Not a Muslim (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1995)
Wolfe, Michael and producers of Beliefnet, eds. Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith (Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale/Beliefnet, 2002)
Ye’or, Bat Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (Madison, New Jersey:Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002)
Zachary, Pascal The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge—Picking Globalism’s Winners and Losers (New York: Public Affairs, 2000)
Zakaria, Fareed The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (New York:W.W. Norton, 2003)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 254
For the really committed:
Ibn Rushd The Books of the Decisive Treatise Determining the Connection between the Law and Wisdom (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2001)
To ease into the above, check out: Majid Fakhry, Averroes: His Life, Works and Influence (Oxford, U.K.: Oneworld, 2001)
Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed (Culver City, California: Labyrinthos, 1989)
To ease into the above, check out:
Kenneth Seeskin, Maimonides:A Guide for Today’s Perplexed (West Orange, New Jersey: Behrman House, 1991)
Papers of the Georgetown University Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (e.g. "The Need for Civilizational Dialogue" and "Islamists and the Challenge of Pluralism")
Proceedings of conferences sponsored by The International Council of Christians and Jews (e.g. "Convivencia: Enhancing Identity through Encounter between Jews, Christians and Muslims")
Proceedings of the Kuala Lumpur International Forum on Islam 2002
United Nations Arab Human Development Report 2002
World Bank Research Report: Engendering Development 2001
The Quran, N.J. Dawood, trans. (London: Penguin Classics, 1956 and updated 1999)
Ajami, Fouad Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998)
Ali, Tariq The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (London:Verso, 2002)
Ali,Tariq Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (London: Chatto, 1992)
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin After Multiculturalism (London:The Foreign Policy Centre, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism (New York: Ballantine, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen Islam: A Short History (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2000)
Armstrong, Karen "Was it Inevitable?" in James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds. How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs/Council on Foreign Relations, 2001)
Armstrong, Sally Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan (Toronto: Penguin, 2002)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 250
Asfour, Gaber " Osama Bin Laden: Financier of Intolerant ‘Desert’ Islam," New Perspectives Quarterly (Winter 2002)
Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What this Means for Democracy (New York:Times Books, 1995)
Barlas, Asma "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (Austin,Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002)
Buckman, Robert Can We Be Good Without God? Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe (Toronto: Penguin, 2000)
Cohen, Mark Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
Duran, Khalid Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House/American Jewish Committee, 2001)
El Fadl, Khaled Abou Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law,Authority and Women (Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2001)
El Fadl, Khaled Abou The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), edited by Joshua Cohen and Ian Lague for Boston Review
Feiler, Bruce Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (New York:William Morrow, 2002)
Firestone, Reuven Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House/American Jewish Committee, 2001)
Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999)
Al-Ghazaly, (Sheikh) Muhammad The Future of Islam Outside its Land (available in English at: www.ghazaly.net)
Halevi, Yossi Klein At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (New York:William Morrow, 2001)
Hartman, (Rabbi) David A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices within Judaism (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 251
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Islam 2000 (Beltsville, Maryland: Amana,1997)
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Islam: The Alternative (Reading, U.K.: Garnet, 1993)
Hofmann, Murad Wilfried Religion on the Rise: Islam in the Third Millennium (Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 2001)
Hourani, Albert A History of the Arab Peoples (New York:Warner Books, 1991)
Huntington, Samuel The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996)
Ignatieff, Michael Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (Toronto: Penguin, 1994)
Kepel, Gilles Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Lester, Toby "What Is the Quran?" The Atlantic Monthly (January 1999)
Lewis, Bernard The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
Lewis, Bernard Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (New York:W.W. Norton, 1986)
Lewis, Bernard What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Maalouf, Amin In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001)
Mackey, Sandra Passion & Politics: The Turbulent World of the Arabs (New York: Plume, 1994)
Mackey, Sandra The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Mahbubani, Kishore Can Asians Think? (Toronto: Key Porter, 2001)
Makiya, Kanan Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World (New York:W.W. Norton, 1993)
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics (Boulder:Westview Press, 1999)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 252
Menocal, Maria Rosa The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Boston: Little, Brown, 2002)
Morris, Benny Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 (New York:Vintage, 2001)
Naipaul,V. S. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (New York: Random House, 1998)
Naipaul, V. S. "Our Universal Civilization," in The Writer and the World: Essays (New York: Knopf, 2002)
Nasrin, Taslima Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood (South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2002)
Nasrin, Taslima Shame: A Novel (Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1997)
Pearlman, Maurice Mufti of Jerusalem: The Story of Haj Amin el Husseini (London:V. Gollancz, 1947)
Pipes, Daniel The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996)
Pipes, Daniel Militant Islam Reaches America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Ramadan, Tariq To Be a European Muslim (Markfield, Leicester,England:The Islamic Foundation, 1999)
Raphael, George "A is for Arabs," salon.com (January 8, 2002—archived)
Rubin, Barry and Judith Colp Rubin, eds. Anti-American Terrorism: A Documentary Reader (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Rushdie, Salman Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (New York: Random House, 2002)
Sachedina, Abdulaziz The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Sacks, (Rabbi) Jonathan The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (London, New York: Continuum, 2002)
Said,Edward Covering Islam:How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (New York: Pantheon, 1981)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 253
Said, Edward Orientalism (New York:Vintage Books, 1979)
Salem, Ali A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors (Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 2001)
Sampson, Cynthia and Douglas Johnston, eds. Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994)
Sardar, Ziauddin "Islam: Resistance and Reform," New Internationalist (May 2002)
Shehadeh, Raja Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine (South Royalton,Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2002)
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed The Second Message of Islam (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987)
Tibi, Bassam The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
Wadud,Amina Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Warraq, Ibn, ed. Leaving Islam:Apostates Speak Out (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003)
Warraq, Ibn Why I Am Not a Muslim (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1995)
Wolfe, Michael and producers of Beliefnet, eds. Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith (Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale/Beliefnet, 2002)
Ye’or, Bat Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (Madison, New Jersey:Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002)
Zachary, Pascal The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge—Picking Globalism’s Winners and Losers (New York: Public Affairs, 2000)
Zakaria, Fareed The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (New York:W.W. Norton, 2003)
Manj_0679313613_3p_all_r1.qxp 4/26/05 11:06 AM Page 254
For the really committed:
Ibn Rushd The Books of the Decisive Treatise Determining the Connection between the Law and Wisdom (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2001)
To ease into the above, check out: Majid Fakhry, Averroes: His Life, Works and Influence (Oxford, U.K.: Oneworld, 2001)
Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed (Culver City, California: Labyrinthos, 1989)
To ease into the above, check out:
Kenneth Seeskin, Maimonides:A Guide for Today’s Perplexed (West Orange, New Jersey: Behrman House, 1991)
Papers of the Georgetown University Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (e.g. "The Need for Civilizational Dialogue" and "Islamists and the Challenge of Pluralism")
Proceedings of conferences sponsored by The International Council of Christians and Jews (e.g. "Convivencia: Enhancing Identity through Encounter between Jews, Christians and Muslims")
Proceedings of the Kuala Lumpur International Forum on Islam 2002
United Nations Arab Human Development Report 2002
World Bank Research Report: Engendering Development 2001
وبسایت های اصلاح خواه عبارتند از
:
al-fatiha.net freemuslims.org irshadmanji.com muslimwakeup.com newislam.org niputesnisoumises.com ("Neither Whores nor Doormats") secularislam.org wluml.org (Women Living under Muslim Laws)
al-fatiha.net
freemuslims.org
irshadmanji.com
muslimwakeup.com
newislam.org
niputesnisoumises.com ("Neither Whores nor Doormats")
secularislam.org
wluml.org (Women Living under Muslim Laws)
:al-fatiha.net
freemuslims.org
irshadmanji.com
muslimwakeup.com
newislam.org
niputesnisoumises.com ("Neither Whores nor Doormats")
secularislam.org
wluml.org (Women Living under Muslim Laws)
- پیشگفتاری از دکتر خلیل محمد
- نامه
- فصل یک. چگونه به مسلمانی پرهیزخواه بدل شدم؟
- فصل دو. هفتاد باکره؟
- فصل سه. چه هنگام از فکر کردن دست کشیدیم؟
- فصل چهار. دروازه ها و یراقها
- فصل پنج. کی به کی خیانت می کند؟
- فصل شش. شرمگاه پنهان اسلا
- فصل هفت. عملیات اجتهاد
- فصل هشت. در ستایش صداق
- فصل نه. شکر خدا برای غرب
- پسینگفتار
- سفارش کتابخوانی
- سپاسنامه
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