Islam

Homosexuality is anathema to Islam - or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures.

lslam is currently the most spoken about religion in the Western world, and yet it is also the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. Despite frequent news coverage, we remain poorly informed about the true beliefs at the heart of Islam. How many of

Islam, a faith that embraces all races and cultures, has spread far and wide across the globe, and today about one in five people in the world is a follower of the Islamic faith.

Beginning in the world of late antiquity and the pre-Islamic period, the book takes the reader through Islam's formative era and early development in the Arabian Peninsula, the rise and decline of major Muslim dynasties and finally into its place ...

The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion.

Recent events have focused attention on Islam, the often - misunderstood faith of one billion people.

Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does.