Culture is an excellent dawah tool. In many ways, this is probably one of the key ways in which we need to present Islam in this day and age. Having said that, the danger is that you then reduce Islam – a religion of codified law, tenets, values and rituals – to nothing more than an aesthetic expression devoid of a soul. When Islam is reduced to a cultural express, divested of all these things, it is not Islam anymore….
Just got sidi Ahmed Keeler’s new book today. This will be a fascinating read. I loved Rethinking Islam & The West and this book is a biographical account of what is behind the ideas in that book. Sidi Ahmed is a really beautiful soul, someone who has a really generous spirit, a very engaging speaker and storyteller, you can sit and listen to him for hours. His writing style is the same, very lucid and engaging. IN THIS BOOK, Ahmed…
Here are some quick photos I took of the book, The Revival of the Religious Sciences of Ghazali, translated and abridged by Mokrane Guezzou. This is with the dust jacket off to give you an idea of the quality of the hard cover cover … Available from Amazon UK:https://amzn.to/2DGecct