From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the twenty-first century.
Omar Saif Ghobash is the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. In addition to his post in Moscow, Ambassador Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and is a founding trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in collaboration with the Booker Prize in London. Ambassador Ghobash studied law at Oxford and mathematics at the University of London.
A powerful celebration of common humanity and compassion . . .
deserves to be read widely by people of all faiths and none.
*Sunday Times*
Full of brave questions and wisdom
*Ed Husain, author of The Islamist*
An act of bravery
*Niall Ferguson*
Creates hope
*New York Times*
A gentle, cautious work, which addresses thorny questions with a
parent's compassion and a diplomat's delicate tread.
*Harper's*
Ghobash encourages a search for nuance in a world consumed with a
polarizing, partisan us-versus-them mentality.
*Slate*
Thoughtful reflections by a Muslim diplomat about questions of
faith, culture, and modernity.
*Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the
London School of Economics and Political Science*
A timely and incisive book about the hopes and aspirations of
Muslims beyond the headlines that have shaped Western attitudes
towards Islam . . . A must read for Muslims and non-Muslims
*Vali Nasr, Dean and Professor of International Politics at Johns
Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies*
Beautifully written letters . . . A must read for anyone who wants
to take the pulse of a crucial region of our world. Refreshing and
effortless reading, filled with hope.
*Ebrahim Moosa, is professor of Islamic Studies and co-director of
the Contending Modernities program in the Keough School of Global
Affairs at the University of Notre Dame*
A rare treat in that it is intensely human whilst, at the same
time, being an important work of philosophy, religion and life.
*Henry Sweetbaum, Chairman of the International Centre for the
Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence*
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