People Like Us

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People Like Us is written by Waleed Aly and published by Picador Australia. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0330423800 (ISBN 10) and 9780330423809 (ISBN 13).

No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less.People Like Us confronts the themes that define this chasm head-on: women, jihad, secularism, terrorism, Reformation and modernity. Its piercing examination of these subjects reveals our thoughtless and destructive tendency to assume that the world's problems could be solved if only everyone became more like us. The result is deep mutual ignorance and animosity, reinforced by both Muslim and Western commentators.As a Muslim born and raised in Australia, Waleed Aly stands at the intersection of these two civilisations. In this book, he draws on his knowledge of Western and Islamic intellectual traditions to present an analysis that is surprising and challenging, but always enlightening.