Retorika Islam tidak terbatas pada persoalan pidato atau percakapan, melainkan perilaku dan kebujakan dalam seluruh aspek kehidupan manusia. Karena sumbernya yakni Islam merupakan agama yang komprehensif dan universal. Ia benar benar telah melahirkan ummatan wasathan yang telah berhasil mewujudkan peradaban manusia yang memukau.
dalam buku ini, Dr Yusuf Al-Qardhawi menjelaskan hakekat retiruka islam, metode, dan karakteristiknya. Penulis juga berijtihad memberikan beberapa alternatif yang mungkin dipresentasikan dalam retorika kontemporer.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي) is an Egyptian Islamic theologian. He is best known for his programme, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat ("Shariah and Life"), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 40 million worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, a popular website he helped found in 1997 and for which he now serves as chief religious scholar. Al-Qaradawi has also published more than 80 books, including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization. He has also received eight international prizes for his contributions to Islamic scholarship, and is considered one of the most influential such scholars living today. Al-Qaradawi has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian political organization, but twice (in 1976 and 2004) turned down offers for the official role in the organization. A 2008 Foreign Policy magazine poll placed al-Qaradawi at number three on its list of the top 20 public intellectuals worldwide.
Some of al-Qaradawi's views have been controversial in the West, and he is banned from entering the United States, Israel and Great Britain. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving "Islam a bad name."
As of 2004, al-Qaradawi was a trustee of the Oxford University Center for Islamic Studies. He also served as a technical consultant for a multi-million dollar epic movie in English on Muhammad.
Having read Milestones written by Sayyid Qutb before and thought that it didn't bode well with me, I'm glad that Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi had thought of the same. I also admired the fact the he had refuted the former's belief is in a very respectful manner, citing the conditions that the Egyptian rulers had on the Islamists at the time provoked them to adhere to a more extremist ideology of an Islamic Movement. While both have the same end in mind (i.e. to establish Islamic grounding all over the world, Dr. Yusuf's had put out a more thoughtful plan, one that is based on logic and diplomacy (one whole chapter was dedicated on dialogues : the target groups and how to properly engage with them). He also stressed that sometimes one evil has to be tolerated for the betterment of the whole community as it would prevent a bigger evil or calamity. One quote which I like, and which was mentioned a few times in the book, was "A wise man is not that who can tell good from evil, but it is that who can tell the better of two good things and the lesser of two evils". My only complain would be the fact ghat I read the first edition of the translated English copy and it was riddled with typos.
Udah baca versi small bookny...kayaknya... udah lama euy.. Nice, including history of great people when speech.. Perlu baca ini... Dimasukin dulu d daftar... Ntar Insya 4JJ1 klo ada rizqi beli... Amiin.. hueheheh
Menarik banget! Apalagi sejak jaman "dulu" (bahkan di masa Rasulullah) Islam sering dilecehkan. Buku ini bisa jadi semacam "panduan" untuk menyampaikan Islam dengan cara yang elegan, juga cerdas.