London, I.B. Tauris, 2012
Introduction
The Trajectory of Tolerance
tolerant faith – al-ḥanīfiyya al-samḥa
About the tolerance of islam, words of:
Sir Hamilton Gibb, Sir Thomas Arnold, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Bernard Lewis,
Through an insidious symbiosis
between fanatical Muslims and hysterical Islamophobes, the very opposite image
of Islam has emerged as one of the most malevolent stereotypes of our times:
the image of the rabidly intolerant Muslim is paraded, not as the grotesque caricature
of authentic Islam that it is, but rather as the ‘true’ Muslim.
To speak of the islamic tradition is to speak of an explicit recognition of the divinely-inspired phenomenon of religious plurality.
