No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

236 No god but God concluded that the only path to Muslim independence and self- empowerment lay in reconciling modern life with ...

An Awakening in the East 237 that it represented the first modern attempt to present Islam as an all- encompassing religious, po ...

238 No god but God But as Nasser gradually implemented his nationalist agenda in Egypt, his authoritarian rule began to clash wi ...

An Awakening in the East 239 Upon his return to Cairo in 1950, Qutb joined the Muslim Broth- ers, seeing in the Society a ferven ...

�� 240 No god but God unify the realm of earth and the realm of heaven in one system.” The primary condition for the realization ...

An Awakening in the East 241 founded by his family. His position as Shaykh gave him exclusive con- trol of the town’s wells and ...

242 No god but God of God—it makes little sense to refer to Muslim extremists or mili- tants as “fundamentalists.” Nor is this a ...

An Awakening in the East 243 sectarian movement.” Not only was this a spiritually and intellectually insignificant movement in a ...

244 No god but God book they could find, save the Quran. They banned music and flowers from the sacred cities and outlawed the s ...

An Awakening in the East 245 habism over the entire population, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud renamed the Arabian Peninsula “the Kingdom ...

246 No god but God all the money, support, and security the Brothers needed to fight back against secular nationalism in their h ...

An Awakening in the East 247 denly flush with money, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud began using his new- found wealth to build a life befi ...

248 No god but God not fit in the Wahhabi model are considered infidels. Consequently, as al-Qaeda’s founder, Osama bin Laden, h ...

������ 10. Slouching Toward Medina THE ISLAMIC REFORMATION “I N THE NAME of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,” the IranAir p ...

250 No god but God because this is precisely how I am dressed. When I catch their eyes, I can see a glint of the same anxiety th ...

Slouching Toward Medina 251 He stiffens and looks up at my face. I can tell we are the same age, though his tired eyes and his u ...

252 No god but God revolution had fought to attain—while simultaneously affirming the Islamic character of the new republic. In ...

Slouching Toward Medina 253 chemical and biological materials by the Centers for Disease Control and the Virginia-based company ...

254 No god but God based only on Islamic traditions and values. The principal lesson to be learned from the failure of Europe’s ...

�� Slouching Toward Medina 255 W ITH THE END of the Second World War, a victorious yet finan- cially devastated Britain, no long ...