What you don't know about Islam: Responding to the prejudices of Muslims and non-Muslims, by Tareq Oubrou

What you don't know about Islam: Responding to the prejudices of Muslims and non-Muslims, by Tareq Oubrou

Is Allah Arab? Is it permissible to freely choose one's religion or simply to leave it? Is green the color of Islam? Is Sufism a sect? Can the Quran be translated? Can a woman become an imam? The minaret, the hijab , the prayer rug, the crescent… are they intangible elements of the Muslim rite? Do you have to live like the Prophet in all respects to be a “good Muslim”?

This essay is a response to received ideas about Islam. Those that are rife among non-Muslims, but often also among Muslims themselves, sometimes producing aberrations and violence that we witness, disarmed, without understanding the reasons.

It is simplistic to think that everything in the life of a Muslim can be explained by Islam. Tareq Oubrou strives here to distinguish between worship and culture, between what the texts say and what is traditional. Anxious to put an end to the sclerosis that paralyzes Muslim thought, he proposes to reconnect with the spirit of Islam, recalling the historical context in which this religion was born. His book, by sweeping away once and for all the idea that Islam is inherently incompatible with modernity, democracy, equality between men and women and the values of the republic, opens up concrete perspectives for us to improve living -together today.