Reza Aslan

Vivimos en tiempos en los que las noticias permanentemente hablan del Islam. Sus distintas facciones y, sobre todo sus versiones radicales extremistas, muestran una imagen de barbarie, pero cuáles s

Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear. To many in the west, Islam means jihad, veiled women and suicide bombers. Yet these represent only fringe elements of the world''s fastest growing religion. While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history - from Karen Armstrong''s Islam: A Brief History to Bernard Lewis''s The Crisis of Islam, there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion, let alone one by an author from an Islamic background. No God But God fills that gap.What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or of war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews and Christians? Can an Islamic state be founded on democratic values such as pluralism and human rights? In No god but God, challenging the clash of civilisations mentality that has distorted out view of Islam, Aslan explains the faith in all its complexity, beauty and compassion.

Engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking, No god but God is a persuasive, elegantly written, and accessible introduction for young readers to a faith that for much of the West remains shrouded in ignorance and fear. Adapted for young readers from No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, this exploration of Islam by Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed scholar of comparative religion, delves into the rituals and traditions of a religion that is largely misunderstood by the West. It covers the religions originsthe revelation of Muhammad as Prophet and the subsequent uprising against him, and the emergence of his successorsas well as Islams complex history.No god but God is sure to stimulate discussion and encourage understanding of the Islamic faith and the people who follow it.Praise for No god But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam of Islam This welcome addition to Islamic studies provides a valuable context for reflection about the origins of issues facing Muslims and their neighbors today.Publishers Weekly An introduction to Islam as evocative as it is provocative.Kirkus Reviews Wise and passionate book.New York TimesFinancial Times Best Book of the Year

Best-seller internacional que mobilizou a opinião públicaUma impressionante história de Jesus, de sua época conturbada e do nascimento do cristianismo.Em uma narrativa de tirar o fôlego, Zelota ofere

. Número 1 en Amazon. . Una visión nueva y polemica sobre el hombre que se esconde detrás del mito de Jesús. . Ha causado enormes controversias en Estados Unidos desde su publicación. Hace dos mil años, un predicador itinerante recorrio Galilea, reclutando seguidores para establecer un "reino de Dios". El movimiento revolucionario que creo representaba una amenaza tan importante para el orden establecido que ese hombre fue capturado, torturado y ejecutado como un criminal. Decadas despues, sus seguidores lo llamaban Dios. Desentrañando siglos de mitos, el historiador Reza Aslan ofrece una nueva luz sobre uno de los personajes mas influyentes y enigmaticos de la historia, examinando a Jesus a traves de la lente de la tumultuosa epoca en la que vivio. Confrontando al Jesus de los Evangelios con las fuentes historicas, Aslan describe a un hombre lleno de convicciones y pasion, y a la vez plagado de contradicciones. El zelote es una biografia fascinante, provocativa y meticulosamente documentada que trae una nueva perspectiva sobre la naturaleza, la vida y la mision de Jesus de Nazaret

*Ten years on from 9/11, much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West. *While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history - from Karen Armstrongs Islam: A Brief History to Bernard Lewiss The Crises of Islam - there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion, let alone one by an author from an Islamic background. *No God But God fills that gap, addressing issues of belief: the difference between the Quran and the Bible, the meaning of the Hajj, the Muslim relationship with Jesus, the Muslim attitude towards Jews, equality between the sexes and more.* This revised and updated edition includes a wealth of new material and new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe and North Africa; and a number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam & women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc).

*Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world?*HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism. *Contrasting twenty-first-century religious extremism across Christianity, Judaism and Islam with its historical antecedents, Aslan demonstrates that while modern Jihadis may have legitimate social grievances - the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the presence of foreign troops in Muslim lands, to name a few - they have no real goals or actual agenda.*So, what do the Jihadists want? Aslans answer is: Nothing. The Jihadists have no earthly agenda; they are fighting a metaphysical conflict, a theological war. And ever since 9/11, we have unfortunately been fighting the same cosmic war, the war they want: the so-called War on Terror.*How do we win a Cosmic War? By refusing to fight in one. And in this stunning new work, Aslan reveals surprising conclusions about how we can deal with this predicament.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankinds relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality: the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah.Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence.

Cómo el hombre creó a Dios a su propia imagen: una visión original, abierta y contemporánea de la religión.«Fascinante. Tratándose de la biografía introductoria de la que a todas luces puede consider

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of No god but God comes a lucid, intelligent page-turner (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.Riveting . . . [Reza] Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.The New YorkerTwo thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the Kingdom of God. The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God.Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of historys most enigmatic figures by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived. Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction. He explores the reasons the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesus life and mission.

Vivimos en tiempos en los que las noticias permanentemente hablan del Islam.Sus distintas facciones y, sobre todo sus versiones radicales extremistas, muestran una imagen de barbarie, pero cuáles son los origenes de la religion y como ha sido su evolucion.Para explicarnos eso de forma sencilla e imparcial nadie mejor que Reza Aslan, historiador experto en religiones y autor de muchas obras entre las cuales se incluye el best seller El zelote, sobre la vida y el tiempo de Jesus de Nazaret.En este breve libro, el lector podra descubrir cuales son los origenes de una de las religiones mas extendidas y cual ha sido su evolucion entre distintas facciones de la misma hasta llegar a los casos de extremismos como los actuales.Lectura imprescindible para intentar entender mejor lo que sucede hoy en dia y para comprender mejor a las diferentes culturas del mundo.

Cómo el hombre creó a Dios a su propia imagen: una visión original, abierta y contemporánea de la religión.«Fascinante. Tratándose de la biografía introductoria de la que a todas luces puede consider

Cómo el hombre creó a Dios a su propia imagen: una visión original, abierta y contemporánea de la religión. «Fascinante. Tratándose de la biografía introductoria de la que a todas luces puede conside