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I agree with a previous reviewer that the reviews of this book seem to fall into 2 camps, either traditionalists (Who all give the book 1 star but fail to give any substance as to why) And opponents who give it 5 starts (But again, largely lack content as to why give the book such praise) Hopefully as neither a traditionalist or an opponent my review can be a little more balanced. First of all many of the critics of the book seem to refer to an online review of the book by a Christian traditionalist (You can find it cut and paste in a few of the below reviews) So I will base a large part of my review around that. The main criticism of the reviewer concerning this book is that in his opinion Sedgwick has 1. A hidden agenda against traditionalist which he was not honest about when writing the book. 2. He is only a recent convert to Islam (This being back in the 90s) And so has little knowledge of Islam (One could as how a Christian priest came to such a remarkable conclusion but thats another matter) and 3. That Sedgwick follows a narrow interpretation of Islam (Based on his recent conversion and his bad experience with Sufism) Addressing the first point this seems to have come abo

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Author

Mark J Sedgwick

Publisher

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,INC

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199744930

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology

Rating

3.57 / 5 (88 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14