Volume 16, Number 7 · April 22, 1971
Muhammad Speaks
By L.P. Elwell-Sutton
Classical Islam: A History 600 A.D.-1258 A.D.
by G.E. von Grunebaum, translated by Katherine Watson
Aldine Publishing Co., 243 pp., $6.00
The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Central Islamic Lands, Volume II: The Further Islamic Lands; Islamic Society and Civilization
edited by P.M. Holt, edited by Ann K.S. Lambton, edited by Bernard Lewis
Cambridge, 815 and 966 pp., each volume $19.50
A History of Islamic Philosophy
by Majid Fakhry
Studies in Oriental Culture No. 5. Columbia, 427 pp., $15.00
The Fihrist of al-Nadim: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture
translated by Bayard Dodge
Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies No. LXXXIII Columbia, 2 volumes, 1,149 pp., $40.00
Arabic and Persian Poems
in English by Omar S. Pound
New Directions, 80 pp., $1.95 (paper)
There is always something spectacular about the rise of a new religion—the suddenness, in historical terms, with which a new faith, preached by one man to a handful of followers, spreads over a vast area, sweeping along with it whole peoples and often conferring on its first adherents wealth and power beyond their dreams and ambitions. Perhaps none has been so spectacular as the rise of Islam.
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