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

256 No god but God and the resulting cycle of violence, the warring ethnic factions in Iraq, and the genocide of nearly a millio ...

Slouching Toward Medina 257 the people, were denounced as un-Islamic by extremist members of Pakistan’s Muslim clergy, clearing ...

258 No god but God considerations be determined by the citizens of the Islamic state. For as Abu Bakr so wisely stated upon succ ...

�� Slouching Toward Medina 259 sidered democratic only insofar as it reflects its society, if the society is founded upon a part ...

260 No god but God and compared to America’s founding fathers by President Ronald Reagan, the combined force of the foreign Muja ...

Slouching Toward Medina 261 Middle East, they mean specifically an American secular democracy, not an indigenous Islamic one. An ...

262 No god but God Protestant—moral framework. As recognized nearly two hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, religion is ...

Slouching Toward Medina 263 theistic religions as it does for monotheistic ones. However, this is pri- marily a consequence of t ...

264 No god but God political inheritors to overturn those rights. Yet one need simply recall the Prophet’s warning to those who ...

Slouching Toward Medina 265 tem would rest. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people can be established or ...

266 No god but God Soroush. And if ever there is a conflict between the two, it must be the interpretation of Islam that yields ...

Glossary �� ahadiyyah Meaning “oneness,” the Sufi ideal of Divine Unity ahl/qawm A people or tribe ahl al-bayt The family of the ...

268 Glossary Basmallah Invocation that opens most chapters (Surahs) of the Quran: “In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Me ...

Glossary 269 Hijaz The region of western Arabia Hijra The emigration from Mecca to Yathrib (Medina) in 622 C.E.; year 1 A.H. (af ...

270 Glossary matam Self-flagellation rituals mourning the martyrdom of Husayn Mujahadin Muslim militants; literally, “those who ...

Glossary 271 shahadah The Muslim profession of faith: “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is God’s Messenger.” Shariah Islami ...

272 Glossary Wahhabism Puritanical sect of Islam founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Arabia wali The executor of God’s divi ...

�� Notes Prologue: The Clash of Monotheisms The Reverend Franklin Graham made his comments regarding Islam on November 16, 2002, ...

274 Notes The three hundred sixty gods in the sanctuary must be understood as a sacred, not a factual, number. Considering the s ...

Notes 275 but another in his semblance, who was crucified echoes similar Monophysite, as well as Gnostic, beliefs regarding Jesu ...