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Informed dialogue on the subtleties of Islamic religion
Steve Andrew reviews The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson by Suleiman Mourad (Verso, £9.99)
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
SULEIMAN MOURAD’S book, in the shape of a lengthy discourse with leftist academic Perry Anderson, is a seminal guide to Islam.
He appreciates that the religion is best analysed by recognising that the centrality of ideas and values in determining the origins, role and contribution of a belief system has to coexist with an understanding of its interaction with more materialistic phenomenon such as political economy, class struggle and anti-imperialism.
Basic Marxism, one might say, but nonetheless in need of reiteration when more idealist interpretations start to claim the ascendancy — something which is certainly the case at the present time.
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