Record details

• ISBN: 0812971892
• ISBN: 9780812971897
• Physical Description: xxxii, 310 pages ; 21 cm
• Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface to the paperback edition -- Prologue : the clash of monotheisms -- Author's note -- Chronology of key events -- The sanctuary in the desert : pre-Islamic Arabia -- The keeper of the keys : Muhammad in Mecca -- The city of the Prophet : the first Muslims -- Fight in the way of God : the meaning of jihad -- The rightly guided ones : the successors to Muhammad -- This religion is a science : the development of Islamic theology and law -- In the footsteps of martyrs : from Shiʻism to Khomeinism -- Stain your prayer rug with wine : the Sufi way -- An awakening in the east : the response to colonialism -- Slouching toward Medina : the Islamic reformation -- Glossary.

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