Discovering Islam
by Akbar Ahmed

(ISBN:81-7436-276-2 ~ Pub Year: 2003 ~ Pages:251 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Routledge)

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Islam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatical. This readable and wide ranging account balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates the sources of its strength.

Now reissued with a new foreword, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today. . From the four ideal Caliphs who succeeded the Prophet to the refugee camps of Peshawar, an objective picture emerges of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.

PRAISE FOR THE REVISED EDITION

At a time of great international unrest in which the issue of faith has risen up the agenda for all of us, Professor Akbar Ahmed’s book Discovering Islam is essential reading for thinking people who wish to understand this great world religion. This is an incisive, intelligent book and I am delighted to commend it.
-The Right Hon. George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury

It is refreshing, if not unique, to find a thoughtful adherent taking seriously the hard questions posed by those outside Islam, dealing with them honestly and in the process making the spiritual truths of Islam so accessible.
-Benjamin Ladner, President, American University

There has never been a greater need for understanding Islam, and no better source than Discovering Islam. Ahmed is truly the ambassador of Islam.
-Professor Tamara Sonn, President, the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies

There is no one better qualified by scholarship or academic experience than Akbar Ahmed to explain to the western world the teaching of Islam.
-Lord Bernard Weatherill, former Speaker of the House of Commons, UK


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