Harris, Sam, 1967-

Islam and the future of tolerance : a dialogue / Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (138 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Islam and the future of tolerance -- The roots of extremism -- The scope of the problem -- The power of belief -- The betrayal of liberalism -- The nature of Islam -- Finding the way forward.

In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris and Nawaz have produced something genuinely new: they engage one of the most polarizing issues of our time --



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Toleration--Religious aspects--Islam.
Dialogue--Religious aspects.


Electronic Books.

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