By Peter G. Riddell,Peter Cotterell
ISBN-10: 080102627X
ISBN-13: 9780801026270
Authors Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell draw from resources comparable to the Qur'an, early Christian chronicles of the Crusades, and modern Muslim and non-Muslim writings. They stream past the stereotypes of Muhammad-both idealized and negative-and argue opposed to the parable that really fresh occasions within the center East are the single reason for the conflict among Islam and the West.
Riddell and Cotterell ask the non-Muslim international to try to appreciate Islam from the point of view of Muslims and to recognize prior errors. whilst, they problem the Muslim global by means of suggesting that Islam stands this day at an important crossroads and in basic terms Muslims can forge the way in which forward.
Islam in Context will attract all those people who are attracted to a substitute for the simply packaged descriptions of the connection among Islam and the West.
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