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Quran And Cricket (2000)

by Farish A. Noor(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9833221262 (ISBN13: 9789833221264)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Silverfish Books

review 1: This book has scattered charms; intelligent, yet doesn’t insult its readers’ knowledge. Qur'an and Cricket is a travelogue of a journey through Madrasahs in Asia taken on by Farish A Noor, an academic studying the socio-political state of affairs of countries. He moves through countries in a Jane Goodall-esque approach, residing with the locals and learning about them from grassroots level amidst the bedlam.The author’s journey is a harsh one through afflicted lands; some are torn by war and others are prisoners in their own country. Despite the gritty details of the journey, we are treated to some surprising notes of humour and riddle-me-this theories in this strangely personal account of the Muslim movement. The sombre appearance of this book may strike many as a d... morereary recollection, but be assured that Farish A Noor, dubbed our very own academic rockstar, is a reflective writer who takes you along with his experiences, giving you his daydreamish Indonesia and droll tour guides from Libya—all done with the fascination of an outsider following the current of different moods.
review 2: Buku ini memberi inspirasi kepada aku untuk keluar daripada "comfort zone" dan melihat bagaimana keadaan dunia Islam yang sedang ditindas. Di dalam buku ini jugak aku tertarik dgn satu sub-tajuk "The hell of everyday life"." Hell occurs as leitmotif in all religions. Perhaps it stems from our collective fear of the unknown and the probability for an ultimate reckoning for our misdeeds on this earth. But in almost all of the iconographic and pictorial accounts of hell, one common image stands dominant: humanity is in pain, and each of us is confined to our private suffering. In the images of hell we see, every one of us is locked in an eternal torment that is solitary. Hell is the pain of individual anguish, of the cry that goes unheard= for no-one listens to your plea for help in there. It is the hell of an individualism so selfish that society itself is absent. Hell is the loss of human bonding, of the impossibility of communication. And hell is where we today; in Holland, in Europe, across the world. We no longer communicate. We speak past each other and address only the instrumental fictions and the stereotypes we have created to scare ourselves and anaesthetise our neighbours; where politicians can declare crusades and holy wars against an idea; where a man can be murdered in the street because he is not understood. The way out of hell is love. Love is the recognition of the Other; the acknowledgement that the person before us is a fellow human being whose life is an abundant store of emotion, feelings, memories of hope and loss, tears, smiles, laughter. Love is the prerequisite of communication, even when that communication is difficult and one is not always understood. But love dictates that we need to understand, or at least make the effort to understand; and not to demonise to , scapegoat, to sully, to abuse. Love is the thing that stops the finger as it presses on the trigger; is the thing that stills the hand before it reaches for the knife."Syabas Ustaz Farish ! less

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