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Used/Islam By V.S. Naipaul, 1st ed. Condition very good, minor wear on jacket. A book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is a rich and human book, full of people and their stories.

By Gerhard Endress, translated from German by Carole Hillenbrand. Condition good, noticeable wear to cover. This book offers a clear, thoughtful, and concise account of Islamic theology, revelation, dogmatic evolution, mysticism, and law; social and econiic aspects of medieval urban life; a summary of the historical development of each of the main regions of the Islamic world; the principal trends and most important political/cultural events from the rise of Islam to the present; notes on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages; on nomenclature, and on the Muslim calendar. A massive chronological table, running to 50 pages, provides a most valuable reference, and is followed by a splendid select bibliography for further reading.

By Karen Armstrong, 1st ed. Condition very good, minor wear on jacket. No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam, seen as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history of Islam is a vital corrective to this stereotype. Her book demonstrates clearly how ideas of social justice and compassion are, and always have been, central to the Islamic world-view.

Roger Du Pasquier is a Swiss journalist whose features on the Muslim world reflect a lifetime of experience and study. In these closing years of the 20th century Islam has captured the attention of the West, and has baffled it. Alone among the world's religions, Islam is not just surviving but flourishing. From Indonesia to West Africa, and even in some Western countries, Muslims are reasserting their spiritual and social identity, often in ways which the secular West finds hard to understand. Yet many people know little about Islam, and regard its continuing attraction as something of a mystery. Unbiased yet passionate, this book offers an unveiling which must be heeded if the present mutual incomprehension between East and West is to be overcome.