{"product_id":"alongjihadmyquestforthemiddleway","title":"A Long Jihad: My Quest for the Middle Way","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMuhammad Abdul Bari\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9781847741172\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari asks us to look beyond the extremism and violence that all too often defines the Muslim community toward those, like himself, navigating a middle-way life. A path defined in Islam as the “natural way,” far away from the cliff of radicalisation that threatens to harm others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his personal journey as an Air Force officer in Bangladesh to the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain during the ill-advised War on Terror and beyond, Muhammad’s proud and reassuring reflections on being a Western Muslim come to light: the importance of community engagement, civic responsibility, and what it means to live a good life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn articulating his positions Muhammad Abdul Bari offers Muslims, and everybody else, guidance on going forward as engaged, confident individuals, down a path that rejects radical views and seeks to stay in the centre, living a life of moderation that is, as the Qur’an says, “justly balanced.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kube","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12280177098787,"sku":"9781847741172","price":18.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/a0ac51fb8bbcc47ffc00da5f8e385ca2b9f4ed3c.jpg?v=1531881080","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/alongjihadmyquestforthemiddleway","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}