Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Author(s): John L. Esposito
What a Billion Muslims Really Think
In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the world's Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself?
Who Speaks for Islam? spotlights this silenced majority. The book is the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations - urban and rural, young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate. It asks the questions everyone is curious about:
Why is the Muslim world so anti-American? Who are the extremists? Is democracy something Muslims really want? What do Muslim women want?
The answers to these and other pertinent, provocative questions are provided not by experts, extremists, or talking heads, but by empirical evidence - the voices of a billion Muslims.
Product Information
John L. Esposito, Ph.D., is a leading expert on the Muslim world. He is a university professor and a professor of religion and international affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown University and the founding director of Georgetown's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. She leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey of more than one billion Muslims worldwide. Mogahed also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), through which Gallup, in collaboration with The Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West.
General Fields
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- : Gallup Press
- : Gallup Press
- : 0.435
- : 25 February 2008
- : 215mm X 140mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : John L. Esposito
- : Paperback
- : 230
- : Islamic studies
