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Misconception About Islam Essay

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Common Misconceptions About Islam, by Shehzad Saleem: Al-Mawrid 2009.176 pages.
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This book is chosen for review as part of the Islam and International relations course for better identification and understanding of the relationships between political and religious ideologies in
Islam. The author of this book is Shehzad Saleem; a renown Pakistani scholar who received his
PhD in the history of the Quran from the University of Wales, UK.1
The book “Common misconception about Islam” is a scholarly and well written piece in recognition and understanding of the common misconceptions about Islam through juridical,
Quran and Hadith. Unlike the standard formatting, the author has not separated the book into chapters, but rather has used …show more content…

The author presents some of the most significant aspects of religion through verses of Quran and Hadith in this regard. He further discussed the concept of inferiority and superiority. Chapter seven is the role of Family in Islam, focusing on women, and their role in the family. Common misconceptions about the husband permission, consent, divorce and
Halalah are the main topics discussed in this section.
Chapter eight, nine and ten respectively discuss the issues of Punishment, Jihad, and Non
Muslims. These three chapters provide a number of common misconceptions about the testimony of women and men, the role of state in Jihad, the conditionality of the state’s authority, offensive vs. defensive Jihad and the relations with Non Muslims in the perspective of the Islamic studies.
The final chapter is an overview of the miscellaneous and the misconceptions about the

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