Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
The Islamic Optimist
By Malise Ruthven
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
by Tariq Ramadan
Oxford University Press, 242 pp., $23.00
To Be a European Muslim
by Tariq Ramadan
Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 273 pp., £9.95 (paper)
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
by Tariq Ramadan
Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity
by Tariq Ramadan, translated by Said Amghar
Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 352 pp., £9.95 (paper)
The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
by Barnaby Rogerson
Little, Brown, 432 pp., $37.95
No one would deny that the Prophet Muhammad is one of the most influential men in human history. Of all the founders of world religions, he is also the most controversial. Unlike the Buddha and Christ, he not only founded a new religion but created a theocratic state, with all that entails for the idea of a divinely constituted moral order.
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