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Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing from sources such as the Qur’an, Ibn Ishaq’s biography of Muhammad, early Christian chronicles of the Crusades, and contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim writings, Peter Riddell and Peter Cotterell approach modern Islam with academic rigor. They move beyond the positive and negative stereotypes of Muhammad to argue against the myth that relatively recent events in the Middle East are the...

has seemed to some, such as the American Muslim activist Hamza Yusuf,18 to be continuing the Khariji tradition. The Khariji philosophy does not sit comfortably with the diversity of urbanized Islam, and this might in some small measure explain the withdrawal of the al-Qa’ida leader, Osama bin Laden, from life in urban Saudi Arabia to the rural life of Afghanistan, where a community apart could be established. Ali had lasted as caliph for only five
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