Ebook254 pages4 hours
Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A Jihadist's Own Story
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry's eventual alienation from radical Islam.
This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions.
Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west.
This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions.
Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 15, 2009
ISBN9781617970511
Related to Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise
Related ebooks
The House of Souls Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Buddhist Rebel: Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTerror Firma Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Nightmare and Other Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reason for Existence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Parables: The Approach of Learning Principles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDay Breaks Over Dharamsala: A Memoir of Life Lost and Found Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGod Realization: The Revelation of the All in All of Being Within Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poems of Goethe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Baal Shem Tov and the Heretic: A Sabbatean Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe marriage of heaven and hell Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Faust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe machine and the ghost: Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSiddhartha Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy Resurrection?: An Introduction to the Belief in the Afterlife in Judaism and Christianity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tightrope of the Absurd Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaryl P. Jenkins Accidentally Blows Up New York City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Reluctant Channel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMartin Buber's Formative Years: From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Search for the Sacred: Is Holiness a State of Space, Time or Mind? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Islam For You
The Holy Qur'an Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5English Translation of the Qur'an Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quran English Translation. Clear, Easy to Read, in Modern English. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Holy Quran, English Translation, "Text Only" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Islamic Wisdom: The Wisdom of Muhammad and The Wisdom of the Koran Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Holy Qur-an: Text, Translation and Commentary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuran In English. Modern English Translation. Clear and Easy to Understand. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Meaning of the Holy Qur'an: Complete Translation with Selected Notes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quran Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quran: Arabic Text with Corresponding English Meaning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The False Teachings of the Man from Planet Rizq: Nuwuapian Cult Leader Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Critical Qur'an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDefenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Easy and Clear English Translation of the Quran with Arabic text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise - Khaled al-Berry
a book_preview_excerpt.html |۲q@oRDsؖ ѡ8[5P
n D|?;O%ʬ }uʕY9M?_|[ߖo~Ǯw Kӥcs187ԄyC9i0}|4%6?1/}?eKِ5yrͥsNIfw{Rל>N]>h>.&`XeniO+V5r
en^'͛_Oa_#'~}~
9cKj𢝵q^B?ao㡙$@sZ?kܖLBY.i=_fJ*>y&ݦ&y{ޭ_.п1o+l7D6֠}ŀ=- ۺ)>5KBnnT'1D1]̇ϰl_e93%v\0穤!!?CCZ;%y)M! 9~|.\w0dRC6]yswa#$:,&Wbi4oZD>*`3)5@A7w gzmSzy$\L JпQyzE|8M`
Q
0%FXdMy)E]@M=穨uBQJ*Gzau7捫5aybH/P):zݾ93 5fS%#@L>S3臏ӄO>É>_h)sѱ4$e&ya[ɃYdűMCXW|b5mQ^CgiyPc=}ӸM7~0-D;_p>>GO|pYBLW߅L1/izϫa'LSig;Tv?4P|op6Es^MG7o/y 4C&-uiᐰ[a7Sl &Ae}#%`Xk<(!x8kdL3 apA*(
0x;bnN!*ͤ3Mn1ysiN|zPk,
ʹ)SbLq0t?ʏB 0| sMԊ&Ɓ.svYg?SKD>|Z;ec5DSfL%Dw SJǒ*LW<#DʕLCڼ6aH7>jCp U'*~Mhyɘ o|ekP#8:K5='Ԏj,3eMՃSg0V?ݒ|}tЅwEq"G