As a child, Irshad Manji was a religious Muslim girl who attended Islamic school. She was expelled for asking too many difficult questions – and she is still asking them. The bestselling author of The Trouble With Islam Today, Manji remains a faithful Muslim, but her outspoken views have led to death threats.

In Faith Without Fear we join Manji as she travels the globe on a journey to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom. Inspired by the Qur’an, Islam’s holy book, she calls on her fellow Muslims to stop blaming others for their ills and seeks to discover how Muslims can change for the 21st century.

In Yemen, Manji sits down with a former bodyguard of Bin Laden’s who hopes for martyrdom for his son. In the Netherlands, she meets former politician and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim whose work critical of Islam led to the murder of her co-director, Theo van Gogh, by an offended Islamic extremist. And in Spain, she reclaims the ancient tradition of ijtihad – Islam’s own tradition of independent thinking and vibrant debate.

While highlighting Manji’s quest for the heart of the Islamic tradition, Faith Without Fear also reveals her close relationship with her mother – a devout Muslim who believes her daughter is (mostly) right, but who also fears for the consequences of her beliefs

In an era in which Islam is often portrayed in the media as harsh and violent and Muslims as fundamentalist fanatics, Faith Without Fear offers a complex and multi-faceted inquiry into one of the world’s great religions, from the perspective of a woman who is dissenting, yet deeply engaged with her faith.