Struggle for the Soul of Islam

Book of the Day: In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam, by Milton Viorst. Publisher: Westview Press.

For many people in the West, Islam appears to be a monolithic faith and Muslims an undifferentiated mass of fundamentalist believers. The existence of factions, debates, and disagreements either goes unrecognized or is simply undervalued, but this diversity - however muted it can be - may hold the keys for not only understanding the state of Arab Muslims societies today, but also for those societies' future.

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