No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

by Reza Aslan

angur;

uzum;

i...

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ruh,

nafs,

qalb

fana:

Pir;

bay’ah,

qutb:

baraka

erfan

agape

Rabia of Basra (717–801).

who was cast out of God’s presence for refusing to bow before Adam.

fikr

taliban

Sufi sentiment that “if the world does not agree with you, you agree with the world.”

“If the world does not agree with you, arise against it!”

world’s first “Islamic state,” Pakistan.

khedives.

fellaheen)

West’s compulsion to pull “religion apart from common life.”

hegemony

“Muwahiddun,”

“Unitarians”).

Islamist)

1911; the United States in 1953—whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic aspirations in the region.

his 1516 edition of the New Testament, in which the Virgin became “gracious” rather than “full of grace,” and John’s apocalyptic cry in the Gospel of Matthew to “do penance” was deliberately transformed to “repent.”

radically new vision of divine morality and social egalitarianism still continues to this day.