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Tables of Contents for Conference of the Books
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
iv
Preface
xiii
The Conference of Books: The First Admission
1
6
The Night's Visitor
7
4
The Pirates of the Intellect
11
6
The Terror of Bigotry
17
2
The Civilization of the Book
19
6
The Interminable Conference
25
4
On Betrayal
29
4
A Prayer
33
4
Donkeys Carrying Books
37
4
To Murder the Soul
41
4
A One More Knowing
45
4
Women As an `Awra
49
4
The Authoritative and the Authoritarian
53
4
On Obedience
57
4
To Suffer the Children
61
4
On Forms of Terror
65
4
Dial-a-Fatwa
69
4
On Knowledge
73
4
NYC Bombing
77
4
Umm Ahmad and the Judge
81
4
The Book Massacres
85
4
To Kill Parenthood
89
4
Killing Flies
93
4
Attending Jum`a
97
4
Burdens of a Generation
101
4
The Dialectics of an Apology
105
4
The Essential Individual
109
4
The Search for Beauty
113
4
Hegemony and Terrorism
117
4
Longing for Brotherhood
121
4
The Culture of the Mamnu`
125
4
On Being in Love
129
4
Lecturing on the Ugly
133
4
A Night With the Qalam
137
4
A Homily for Ibn Rushd
141
6
The Sunna of the Beloved
147
4
Colonizing Women
151
4
The Page
155
4
My Friend
159
4
The Truth of Silence
163
4
On the Beating of Wives
167
10
The Beating of Wives Revisited
177
12
In Praise of the Marginal
189
4
A Love Song
193
4
Migrating to the Shaykhs
197
6
On Revising Bigotry
203
8
An Encounter With the Shaykh (On the Delusions of the Fog)
211
6
Finding the Shaykh
217
8
The Book of Suspended Judgment
225
8
Dreaming of the Prophet
233
10
Women as a Colony
243
6
In the Footsteps of the Beloved
249
4
The State Between Two States (A Partnership With God)
253
12
The Pearls of Beauty (On Re-Finding Our Lost Civilization)
265
14
The Intellectual Refugee
279
6
When the Devil Speaks
285
4
Corrupting God's Book
289
14
The Remembrance
303
22
The Scholar's Road
325
14
Muhammad, the Child
339
4
Notes of the Night
343
4
Notes of Transformation (Conclusion)
347
6
Glossary of Terms
353
26
Selected Biographies
379
1
Index
379