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The One Beyond All: : Islam's God and the World's Gods - A Radical Re-Reading
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ISBN13: 9798278597209
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In an age marked by spiritual confusion, religious polarization, and casual claims that all gods are the same, The One Beyond All: Islam's God and the World's Gods - A Radical Re-Reading offers a bold, lucid, and intellectually rigorous intervention. This book reopens the most fundamental of human questions-Who is God?-and examines it across the world's major religious traditions through a lens rarely applied with such clarity: Islam's uncompromising vision of divine oneness.
Rather than treating religious differences as either trivial or irreconcilable, this work insists that they matter profoundly. Ideas of God are not abstract beliefs; they shape moral systems, political orders, human dignity, and ultimate destiny. By placing Islam's doctrine of tawḥīd-absolute divine unity-into sustained conversation with Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and modern secular interpretations, the book reveals both a shared divine grammar and decisive theological fractures.
Beginning with the human search for meaning and the enduring relevance of God, the book carefully unfolds the Islamic conception of God as utterly one, transcendent yet near, merciful yet just, powerful without rival. It then turns outward, engaging other traditions on their own terms: the covenantal God of Judaism, the incarnate and triune God of Christianity, the many-paths divinity of Hinduism, and Buddhism's non-theistic vision of liberation. Each is explored with intellectual fairness and theological seriousness.
What emerges is neither relativism nor polemic, but a rigorous comparative theology that highlights where traditions converge-and where they cannot. The book argues that Islam's rejection of incarnation, divine plurality, and mythic drama constitutes not a limitation, but a radical paradigm shift. Tawḥīd reorders theology, ethics, law, and society, grounding human equality and moral accountability in a single, sovereign divine will.
The latter chapters confront modern challenges: secular skepticism, scientific materialism, and the rise of spiritual consumerism. Against attempts to reduce God to metaphor or energy, Islam's God is presented as a living moral reality-irreducible, demanding, and transformative.
The book concludes by moving beyond comparison toward dialogue. It proposes a way forward marked by respect without blurring, truth without hostility, and unity without uniformity. In a world of many voices and competing absolutes, The One Beyond All calls readers to reconsider what it truly means to affirm that God is One-and what such affirmation demands of human life.
Written in an accessible yet elegant style, this book is ideal for readers of theology, philosophy, interfaith studies, and anyone seeking a deeper, more honest engagement with the question of God.
Beginning with the human search for meaning and the enduring relevance of God, the book carefully unfolds the Islamic conception of God as utterly one, transcendent yet near, merciful yet just, powerful without rival. It then turns outward, engaging other traditions on their own terms: the covenantal God of Judaism, the incarnate and triune God of Christianity, the many-paths divinity of Hinduism, and Buddhism's non-theistic vision of liberation. Each is explored with intellectual fairness and theological seriousness.
What emerges is neither relativism nor polemic, but a rigorous comparative theology that highlights where traditions converge-and where they cannot. The book argues that Islam's rejection of incarnation, divine plurality, and mythic drama constitutes not a limitation, but a radical paradigm shift. Tawḥīd reorders theology, ethics, law, and society, grounding human equality and moral accountability in a single, sovereign divine will.
The latter chapters confront modern challenges: secular skepticism, scientific materialism, and the rise of spiritual consumerism. Against attempts to reduce God to metaphor or energy, Islam's God is presented as a living moral reality-irreducible, demanding, and transformative.
The book concludes by moving beyond comparison toward dialogue. It proposes a way forward marked by respect without blurring, truth without hostility, and unity without uniformity. In a world of many voices and competing absolutes, The One Beyond All calls readers to reconsider what it truly means to affirm that God is One-and what such affirmation demands of human life.
Written in an accessible yet elegant style, this book is ideal for readers of theology, philosophy, interfaith studies, and anyone seeking a deeper, more honest engagement with the question of God.
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