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Discovering Islam

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Challenged by a request from his father that he initially felt neither disposed nor
capable of fulfilling, Akbar Ahmed came to this book only after he had found his
voice both as an anthropologist and as a believing Muslim. It is a happy
coincidence of orientations for the reader who joins him in this venture, for this
is not a book to be read as a member of an audience nor even as a text from
which didactic expertise is to be sought. For all its deceptive appearance as
straightforward description and analysis, the book is, I believe, best approached
as an opportunity to look over the shoulder of one who is unflinchingly trying
to explore and assess his cultural and religious heritage. Indeed it is a book that
is almost oral in nature, an attempt to engage those who are willing to walk in
the author’s shoes for a while in a genuine conversation, one that teases up the
readers’ own assumptions, experiences, and reactions in the hope, not of
overcoming them, but of engaging and even incorporating them. ‘Part
autobiography, part history, part literature, and part science’ (as the author
himself describes it), ‘its aim was political’ (as he later said)1 in the sense that it
engages us in imagining a world where power may indeed come to be shared
through mutual comprehension. Seen in this light a strategy for reading the book
necessarily suggests itself—as the sincere invitation of a host who so respects
his guest as to share and attend to the exchange of honest views. For even though
the reader cannot reply directly, at each point in the presentation one can hardly
fail to sense, even without knowing the author, the openness for dialogue that
suffuses his life and his work.

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