Critical Muslim 57 by Ziauddin Sardar - 9781805265870

Critical Muslim 57Fire\nAuthor(s): Ziauddin Sardar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781805265870, 978-1805265870\nSynopsis\nHumanity shares an intimate history with fire. It appears in arts and language predating civilisation, often seen as its origin point. From Prometheuss theft and Hawaiis volcano goddess Pele to the smokeless flames that created djinns in pre-Islamic tales, where we see humanity, we see fire. It can be a source of creation and a source of destruction. Necessary, but uncontainedtroublesome indeed. Revealer, for better or worse. Fire features in a variety of religious practices, often as a metaphor for divine intervention, especially in the Abrahamic religions. Today, however, fire seems to be the element of the agefrom the scorching words and red-hot extreme opinions of our public debates, to the climate changefuelled flames that now regularly engulf entire continent.