Le Message de l'Islam

by Roger Garaudy

Ce livre nous parle de l'Islam à partir du cheminement d'un homme, qui,de par sa connaissance des courants philosophiques, sa réflexion, ses livres, son expérience, donnent de la profondeur à ses réflexions.

Assurément la philosophie est un des chemins nécessaire à la foi : il n'y a pas de foi profonde sans intelligence active. Dieu aime : celui qui possède la compréhension profonde en matière de religion avec une capacité de discernement, l'acquisition des éléments de la foi et la compréhension de ces derniers,ainsi que leurs implications et de leurs usages, qui sont les paramètres indiscutables d'un savoir profond qui donne à la religion une intensité lumineuse.

Ce livre s'inscrit dans cette optique.

Les thèmes les plus importants (Qu'est-ce qu'est l'Islam, la shari'a, la sunna, la lecture du Coran, la raison) sont abordés.

109 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

روجيه جارودي
French philosopher and former elected official in the National Assembly for the French Communist Party.

Garaudy is controversial for his anti-zionist views. He converted to Islam in 1982.

Born to Catholic and Jewish atheist parents in Marseille, Garaudy converted at age 14 and became a Protestant. During World War II, Garaudy joined the French Resistance, for which he was imprisoned in Djelfa, Algeria, as a prisoner of war of Vichy France. Following the war, Garaudy joined the French Communist Party. As a political candidate he succeeded in being elected to the National Assembly and eventually rose to the position of deputy speaker, and later senator.

Garaudy lectured in the faculty of arts department of the University Clermont-Ferrand from 1962-1965. Due to controversies between Garaudy and Michel Foucault, Garaudy left. He later taught in Poitiers from 1969-1972.

Garaudy remained a Christian and eventually re-converted to Catholicism during his political career. He was befriended by one of France's most prominent clerics of the time, the Abbé Pierre, who in later years supported Garaudy, even regarding the latter's most controversial views.

In 1970, Garaudy was expelled from the Communist Party following his outspoken criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Garaudy converted to Islam in 1982 after marrying a Palestinian woman, later writing that "The Christ of Paul is not the Jesus of the Bible," and also forming other critical scholarly conclusions regarding the Old and New Testaments. As a Muslim he adopted the name "Ragaa" and became a prominent Islamic commentator and supporter of the Palestinian cause. He was married to Salma Taji Farouki.

Garaudy wrote more than 50 books, mainly on political philosophy and Marxism.