The Little Red Book of Political Islam

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	• An Abridged Koran CSPI Publishing, 2006 - 220 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Finally a readable Koran

The Koran is a book without context. What is context? For example: "Yesterday president Bush went to visit Jerusalem and said the following on account of the issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict." Everything in this sentence is context. If you take what Bush has said during his presidency out of context and the dates and names are omitted from his speeches and all references to precise events and you do not respect the chronology of when something was said, then you get a book very similar to the Koran, but now it tells the feats of someone called Bush. Such a book needs a decoding by means of a narrative that restores the context. The decoding books for the Koran are the Hadith and Sira. If you merge the three (Koran, Sira and Hadith) you get a story in its original perspective and if you omit the repeat stories of similar speeches for different audiences, you get the "An Abridged Koran" by CSPI. How glad I was to get that book!

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The Little Red Book of Political Islam

In 1964 a paperbound volume was published by the government of Communist China that shook the world: "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" (original transliteration from the Chinese of the Chairman's name), a/k/a "The Little Red Book." This book laid out the doctrinal threads of Chinese Communism.

The Center for the Study of Political Islam's (CSPI) new English version of the Koran does the same for political Islam, also called "Islamism" - "Islamicism" - "Islamic fundamentalism" - "Islamofascism" - "Radical Islam" by post-9/11 pundits, theoretically so as to contradistinguish it from putative plain old "Islam." Whether there is any distinction between Islam per se and "political Islam" is, in the last analysis, for the theologians to decide. But, in any event, you can get a great leap forward on your political-Islam learning curve by reading all 216 pages of this brilliant little red paperback book.

According to "An Abridged Koran: Readable and Understandable" (at p. ix), Volume 4 in CSPI's incredible ten-volume series, the Koran is so difficult for your average Western reader because it is organized like a mystery novel from which one has torn out the book's spine, then has the book rebound, not topically, not chronologically, and not logically, but soley according to the length of each chapter! In contrast to all other English versions of the Koran, this book presents VERBATEM quotations from the Koran, in easily readable "newspaper"/middlebrow English, WHICH ARE ORGANIZED topically, chronologically and logically by the CSPI scholar-editors. The only reason this edition is termed "abriged" is that the Koran's many redundant ayas (verses) are excised. For instance, there are over thirty versions of the story of Moses and the Pharaoh. (N.B. If you are a theological purist and want an unabridged version of the Koran, order CSPI's Volume 3, "A Simple Koran: Readable and Understandable" -- 408 pages in length -- which contains every word of the original classic Koran.)

This book comes with a terrific 6-page overview providing all-important context, and a 6-page commentary at the end that is a theological and philosophical tour de force in both depth and in breadth. There is also a helpful one-page bibliography to help the inquiring layman.

*WESTERNER-INFIDELS!*>

Read this groundbreaking Little Red Book, the very best English version of the Koran, the sacred source-text and doctrinal foundation for 1,400 years of political Islam and counting.

It will blow you away!

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Facinating

If you want to better understand what Islam is all about this is the book to read. It is written very well and presents Mohamed and the Koran in a historical sequence so it becomes meaningful. It also presents the basis for Jihad and it's origin. This is one book in a series. I am tempted to get the entire series. This is a thin book so it purposely doesn't go into extensive detail. But it does cover a great deal of information on Islam.

Highly recommended.

Finally, a Koran that makes sense !

It is important for Muslims and non-Muslims to read and understand the Koran. I have six different English versions of the Koran, but I have never been able to wade through the jumbled, redundant, and vague text in any version. This book, An Abridged Koran, makes it possible in three distinctive ways -- the surahs are presented in their true chronological order, the history of Muhammad and his new religion is integrated into the text, and most of the redundant verses - comprising about half of the Koran - have been eliminated. With this version of the Koran, it is easy to see how Mohammed's early, moderate preaching of a new monothesistic religion in Mecca descended into to militant tyrant's justification of all sorts of evil in Medina. While the book is an accurate rendering of the sacred text, its proper order and context makes it a chilling read for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

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The standard Koran is arranged by length of chapter. The longest chapter is at the beginning and the shortest chapters are at the end. This makes it confusing and hard to understand. You can read and understand AN ABRIDGED KORAN. The words of the Koran are woven back into Mohammed's life. This is the way the Koran unfolded in the first place. It was recorded over the course of Mohammed's life. AN ABRIDGED KORAN recreates the historical order of the Koran of Mohammed's day. The first chapters start with Mohammed's first recitation and the last chapters are those he recited before he died. Mohammed's life gives the Koran clarity, meaning, and order. When the Koran and Mohammed's life are brought together, the Koran becomes a powerful epic story. AN ABRIDGED KORAN is identical to A SIMPLE KORAN except it has all of the repetition removed. For instance, the story of Moses and the Pharaoh is told 39 times. In AN ABRIDGED KORAN the story is told only once. Read AN ABRIDGED KORAN. It will change the way you see the world.

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