{"id":9380,"date":"2013-06-18T20:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T01:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2013-06-18T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T01:13:10","slug":"9380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=9380","title":{"rendered":"Islam and the Discovery of Freedom Reviewed by Mohammad Yousuf Ades"},"content":{"rendered":"

[The following article published in the Egyptian periodical Al-Misrioun that mentions our publication\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Islam and the Discovery of Freedom recently came to our attention.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Islam and the Discovery of Freedom by Mohammad Yousuf Ades
\nTranslated from the Original Arabic in Al-Misriuon (20 – 2 – 2008)<\/p>\n

Michael Moorcock, a U.S. citizen plain of Texas birthplace of the Bush family,\u00c2\u00a0sent a letter extended to the British newspaper The Independent that has\u00c2\u00a0captured my interest for a period of time. He was motivated to write this\u00c2\u00a0letter – as he explained – by two things: first, praise for the journalist\u00c2\u00a0and British author “Robert Fisk,” praising a series of revealing lectures in\u00c2\u00a0the United States about the reality of Arab-Israeli conflict; secondly, to\u00c2\u00a0apologize to his fellow Britons for the perpetration by American media of\u00c2\u00a0lies and flattening of the facts, and stressing that everybody you know of\u00c2\u00a0people in his area do not believe the statements of Washington regarding the\u00c2\u00a0problems of the Middle East, which promoted these instruments, so they left
\nthem for the British satellite TV and the web of foreign newspapers in\u00c2\u00a0search for the right information.<\/p>\n

Sealing Moorcock’s message, Pulse Magazine says: “The people here satirize\u00c2\u00a0the slogans that flow from the U.S. administration, “The real axis of evil\u00c2\u00a0is Enron, Monsanto and the Bush administration.” Michael Moorcock ‘s message\u00c2\u00a0is not unique in the United States. It is a trend gradually growing, but\u00c2\u00a0with determination and strength in the face of madness of American politics\u00c2\u00a0and manifestations of imperialism. This means that the voice of reason and\u00c2\u00a0wisdom is still vibrant and healthy, although ignored or overlooked.<\/p>\n

In this intellectual climate my son and my friend gave me a book that\u00c2\u00a0impressed and surprised me. The book is Islam and the Discovery of Freedom<\/em> by Rose Wilder lane. That name comes up frequently in literary circles as a\u00c2\u00a0researcher discovered that it belongs to the author of polished children’s\u00c2\u00a0books famously titled The Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0series. Those books, which were turned into dozens of TV dramas, had already published under the\u00c2\u00a0name of her mother, Laura Engels Wilder.<\/p>\n

Rose Wilder Lane is famous for her intellectual and practical moral\u00c2\u00a0commitment to the cause of freedom, and pressed to defend this case, she\u00c2\u00a0authored a book in this subject entitled “Discovery of Freedom” and its
\nsubtitle shows the content of the “clash of rights against the tyranny of\u00c2\u00a0power.” The author says: “I wrote this book in a white heat”, however it was soon withdrawn from the market after she learned that it contained some\u00c2\u00a0historical errors. But the agent who re-published the book later confirms\u00c2\u00a0that these errors did not have any negative impact on the essence of the\u00c2\u00a0message contained in the book, and the author’s high sense of moral\u00c2\u00a0responsibility is what made her withdraw copies of the book from\u00c2\u00a0circulation.<\/p>\n

Rose Wilder Lane was born in 1886 to her mother, Laura, as I have already\u00c2\u00a0indicated, while her father was Almanzo Wilder. In this name is an exciting\u00c2\u00a0story. She reached the peak of her fame in 1936 through a series of articles\u00c2\u00a0published in the magazine The Saturday Evening Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Contact with the Muslim world:<\/p>\n

Rose Lane had volunteered to work as a reporter interviewing the\u00c2\u00a0International Red Cross after the First World War, in order to observe them\u00c2\u00a0and record reports on the activities of this organization in the
\nBalkans, Russia and the Middle East. This work gave the opportunity to have\u00c2\u00a0direct contact with the Islamic world and Muslims, and she gained rich\u00c2\u00a0experience that deepened her vision of the realities of this world that\u00c2\u00a0served her long-held intellectual\u00c2\u00a0curiosity. Since her childhood she had an\u00c2\u00a0interest in a firm tradition handed down in her family throughout the ages,\u00c2\u00a0and perhaps one that opened her mind to Islam, its history and his exploits,\u00c2\u00a0because Rose Lane knew they a chivalrous Muslim Arab knight saved her grandfather from \u00c2\u00a0death during the\u00c2\u00a0Crusades in Palestine. Reporting on this incident, Henry Gray Weaver in his\u00c2\u00a0book entitled “Mainspring of human progress” published in 1953, says the\u00c2\u00a0English knight wounded in the Crusades and almost perished but that an Arab treated and then released him. In recognition of this beautiful act\u00c2\u00a0the knight pledged that his descendants generation after generation would\u00c2\u00a0bear his rescuer’s name, and here the father of Rose Wilder Lane was carrying\u00c2\u00a0name Almanzo — Weaver says: It seems that the origin of the name is\u00c2\u00a0“Al-Mansour”.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Conflict or Dialogue?<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad saw to the publication of the chapter on Islam from\u00c2\u00a0the book The Discovery of Freedom<\/em> because it has become of great\u00c2\u00a0importance, especially after the appearance of the book Samuel Huntington,\u00c2\u00a0which portends a clash of civilizations, because the book The Discovery of\u00c2\u00a0Freedom<\/em> promises – on the contrary, – the dialogue of civilizations. He has\u00c2\u00a0republished of this part of the book titled Islam and the Discovery of\u00c2\u00a0Freedom<\/em> without alteration of the text, but with his marginal comments,\u00c2\u00a0explaining and correcting where necessary.<\/p>\n

Dr. Imad graduated from Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in astronomy\u00c2\u00a0and astrophysics from the University of Arizona and is now president of the\u00c2\u00a0Minaret of Freedom Institute for Islamic research in Washington. He also\u00c2\u00a0taught at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. His
\nfirst book was titled Signs in the Heavens<\/em> (1992) which reviews Muslim\u00c2\u00a0scholarship in religion and science, and on the same subject he presented a\u00c2\u00a0paper at a conference in the Vatican in 1994 under the auspices of Vatican\u00c2\u00a0Foundation Astronomical Observatories, with interdisciplinary intellectual\u00c2\u00a0efforts in multiple areas of dialogue between Islam and Western\u00c2\u00a0civilization. Hence his interest in the republication of the section on\u00c2\u00a0Islam from the Book of Rose Lane, a book that deserves a lot of meditation\u00c2\u00a0and attention.<\/p>\n

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[The following article published in the Egyptian periodical Al-Misrioun that mentions our publication\u00c2\u00a0Islam and the Discovery of Freedom recently came to our attention.] Islam and the Discovery of Freedom by Mohammad Yousuf Ades Translated from the Original Arabic in Al-Misriuon (20 – 2 – 2008) Michael Moorcock, a U.S. citizen plain of Texas birthplace of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-ahmads-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}