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In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as 'strong Muslims', his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, a return to life on the outside, and attending Cairo University all lead to Khaled al-Berry'seventual alienation from radical Islam. This book opens a window onto the mind of an extremist who turns out to be disarmingly like many other clever adolescents, and bears witness to a history with whose reverberations we continue to live. It also serves as an intelligent and critical guide for the reader to the movement's unfamiliar debates and preoccupations, motives and intentions. Fluently written, intellectually gripping, exciting, and often funny, Life is More Beautiful than Paradise provides a vital key to the understanding of a world that is both a source of fear and a magnet of curiosity for the west

Exposé of the Tricks of Fake Prophets -- Exposé of the Tricks of Fake Shaykhs and Illusionists among the Dervishes, the Shaykhs, and "the Righteous" -- Exposé of the Tricks of Fire-and-Brimstone Preachers -- Exposé of the Tricks of Monks -- Exposé of the Tricks of Jews and Others -- Exposé of the Tricks of the Banū Sāsān -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Work Solomon's Ant -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Practice War and Bear Arms -- Exposé of the Tricks of the People of the Kāf, That Is, Alchemy -- Exposé of the Tricks of Apothecaries -- Exposé of the Tricks of the People of the Mīm (Who Are Treasure Hunters Who Pretend to Have Access to Hoards of Wealth and Buried Treasure) -- Exposé of the Tricks of Astrologers Who Ply Their Trade on the Highway -- Exposé of the Tricks of Spirit Conjurors -- Exposé of the Tricks of the Doctors Who Practice on the Highways -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Extract Worms from Teeth -- Exposé of the Tricks of Eye Doctors Who Use Metal Instruments -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Dye Horses -- Exposé of Their Tricks : Example: Those Who Dye Humans -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Manipulate Fire and Can Block Its Heat -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Concoct Artificial Foodstuffs -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Work Knockout Drugs and Stupefacients -- Exposé of the Tricks of Notaries, That Is, of the People Who Draw Up Contracts -- Exposé of the Tricks of Prestidigitators -- Exposé of Jewelers and Their Fake Products -- Exposé of the Tricks of Money Changers, of Scams They Pull and Scams Pulled on Them -- Exposé of the Tricks of Those Who Creep Up on Beardless Boys at Music and Chanting Performances and Weddings and on Journeys and So On -- Exposé of the Tricks of "the Masters of the Crafts" -- Exposé of the Tricks of Sneak Thieves (Thieves Who Enter Houses Unlawfully) -- Exposé of the Tricks of the Thieves Who Enter Houses by Making Holes in Walls and Committing Murder -- Exposé of the Tricks of Women, and of Their Cunning, Craftiness, and Duplicity.