The Trouble With Islam [Paperback]

Irshad Manji (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited; First edition (September 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679312501
• ISBN-13: 978-0679312505
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,719,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book of the year, October 8, 2003

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mike deraiah (chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trouble With Islam (Paperback)

This book deserves to win every literary prize for which it is eligible. This a brilliant, passionate, articulate, and critical examination of Islam. Easily the most introspective analysis of the faith by a Muslim ever, period.
I do fear for Ms. Manjis life however. The Trouble With Islam makes the Satanic Verses look like a nursery rhyme, and look at the trouble that brought Salman Rushdie.
All I can say is READ THIS BOOK.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Osriches with their heads in sands, February 22, 2004

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syed ebrahim (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trouble With Islam (Paperback)

I was not surprised that moslem critics attacked Ms.Manji'book with the usual rhetorics and age-old comments like,"she has not read the Koran,she doesn't know the true Islam,etc" and more of the same ad-hominens which have been used as the most favored tool to counter their points in defense of the Islam for as long as I can remember. As far as I am concerned, she is to Islam that Martin Luther was to Christianity. In fact, most moslems have been duped,left behind, and wrapped up in lies for years and for them to face the truth is more painful than to reform. In my opinion, Islam is literally unreformable for their belief
that Koran is word-for-word from God. In reality, Ms.Manji has the guts to point out that Islam is badly in need of reformation in order to progress in this changing World shared by the other 5 billion people of different faith. Ms.Manji is indeed a breath of fresh air so needed for a faith that's viewed as 'angry religion' today, sadly.

S.Ebrahim, New York City, New York

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insghts, November 2, 2003

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H. Rosenberg "Pundit for Peace" (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trouble With Islam (Paperback)

Manji brings marvelous tools to her writing table--critical thinking, insight, courage, and a way with words. In a paragraph she captures an essence that may take another a book to explain. She has messages for all of us, the most important perhaps is that wisdom follows maturity of insight and tolerance.

A snippet from p. 58 points to modern America: "The tricky part of empire isn't amassing it, but making it hum."

One clue that Manji has something to say lies in the range of reviewer ratings posted here; they are either great or terrible. Is Manji a controversial person? Certainly. Will she become a mover and shaker? She already is. Is she worth reading? Of course, regardless of your persuasion. Look for her insights into the mundane. Contrast the incisiveness you find with the negative platitudes you can read in other reviews here.