Mais de retour au Danemark, quelque chose a changé en lui. À Jérusalem, l’expérience de la visite du Dôme du Rocher l’a intrigué et affecté au plus profond de lui-même – alors que, dans le même temps, les navrantes querelles intra-chrétiennes de la ville sainte le détournaient définitivement de l’Église. « J’étais désespéré ; une fois de plus, je ressentais les doutes les plus amers, la dépression la plus profonde », écrira-t-il plus tard à ce sujet ; « et puis je sortis de l’église du Saint-Sépulcre pour entrer dans la mosquée d’Omar. Là, tout était silencieux, la quiétude était absolue. Aucun prêtre ne célébrait la messe ni ne prêchait la métamorphose du pain et du vin en Dieu ; aucune musique n’était là pour hypnotiser et éloigner le cœur de la clarté de la compréhension. Ici, il n’y avait pas de figure de Dieu sculptée ; l’on était seul avec Dieu, un Dieu tout-puissant dont la lumière scintille pour se refléter dans chaque cœur humain. »
Quelque chose d’irrésistible semble le pousser à retenter l’expérience en terre d’Islâm : en , il décide ainsi de s’installer au Maroc avec femme et enfant ; il y fonde une compagnie d’import-export et poursuit sa carrière de journaliste en
Desert Encounter
Introduction
“Desert Encounter,” is not just an adventure book that I read, but rather it is a spirit that flowed in my heart and mind, the spirit of truth, courage and manhood. Several people, whom I know, and who have read this book, felt the same queer feeling that I felt: the more you read the more you love him and the reader senses this feeling increasing just before turning each page to start reading the new one.
KNUD HOLMBOE was born on 22 April , a Danish journalist who reverted to Islam in his twenties: he died as a martyr of freedom of expression, he died because he was never afraid of doing what he thought was necessary and right even at the risk of social censure and he died because he had a very pronounced sense of justice, which always led him to take sides with the weak and the oppressed. He welcomed any enterprise that offered adventure, however hazardous, or that gave him an opportunity to escape from the monotony of urban civilization. The son of a Danish manufacturer in Horsens, he deliberately rejected the somber security of an established business, instead journalism offered a way of escape, and as he had a natural aptitude fo
The Danish Muslim Who Defended Libya
posted on: Oct 9,
By: Mehdi El Merini / Arab America Contributing Writer
Knud Holmboe was a Danish journalist, author, and explorer whose life journey took him from the Lutheran faith of his upbringing to Islam and led him across the deserts of North Africa. His travels, especially his eye-opening experience in Libya during the brutal Italian occupation, became the core of his most famous work, Desert Encounter (). Holmboe’s story is not only one of adventure and religious transformation but also of advocacy against colonial atrocities, culminating in his mysterious and untimely death in
Early Life and Journey to Islam
Born on April 22, , in Horsens, Denmark, Knud Holmboe grew up in a Protestant family, though from an early age, he displayed a keen interest in the world beyond Europe. After completing his education, he worked as a journalist, and his career would eventually take him to North Africa and the Middle East. However, it was his journey to Morocco and Algeria that truly changed his life, igniting a deep fascination with Islamic culture and the Arab world.
His spiritual transformation came as a result of his
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