Set in the context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, this challenging book discusses the issues of injustice and interreligious dialogue from the Islamic point of view. Farid Esack is an internationally known scholar, speaker and social activist. He is particularly concerned with issues of gender equality, religious pluralism and justice.
The demise of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s followed an unprecedented unity in struggle against oppression from members of different faith traditions. This work details how South African Muslims were brought into conflict with the Qu'ran, which denied virtue outside Islam, and so did not allow them to co-operate with other oppressed groups. It reflects on passages from the Qu'ran and provides interpretations which support solidarity for change, combining social history, politics and theology.