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

56 No god but God primary role was as “Shaykh” of his “clan” of Emigrants, it also clearly endows him with a privileged position ...

The City of the Prophet 57 Kahin, whose connection to the Divine was indispensable in espe- cially difficult disputes like the o ...

58 No god but God society. What is more, just as membership in the tribe obliged partici- pation in the rituals and activities o ...

The City of the Prophet 59 “super-tribe,” or what the historian Marshall Hodgson more accu- rately describes as a “neo-tribe”: t ...

60 No god but God Nor did Muhammad’s move toward egalitarianism end with reforming the Law of Retribution. In Yathrib, he catego ...

The City of the Prophet 61 For men who persevere, and women who persevere, For men who are humble, and women who are humble, For ...

62 No god but God from his own wealth. If the husband died, his wife would inherit a por- tion of his property; if he divorced h ...

The City of the Prophet 63 ally stripped of both their right to divorce and their access to poly- andry (the practice of having ...

64 No god but God After having lived a monogamous life with Khadija for more than twenty-five years, Muhammad, in the course of ...

The City of the Prophet 65 with a nine-year-old girl may be shocking to our modern sensibilities, his betrothal to Aisha was jus ...

�� 66 No god but God become the supremely powerful leader of an increasingly expanding community, some kind of segregation had t ...

The City of the Prophet 67 all of North Africa, and reduced the Christian Byzantine Empire to little more than a deteriorating r ...

68 No god but God Ignaz Goldziher has documented numerous hadith the transmitters of which claimed were derived from Muhammad bu ...

The City of the Prophet 69 after Muhammad’s death, that he once heard the Prophet say “Those who entrust their affairs to a woma ...

70 No god but God wealth (to provide for them).... As for women you feel are averse, talk to them suasively; then leave them alo ...

�� The City of the Prophet 71 dignified, and devout man. But he also had a fiery temper and was prone to anger and violence, esp ...

72 No god but God ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S Day in 1998, many in the Western world were stunned to hear Masoumeh Ebtekar, at the ...

The City of the Prophet 73 was a symbol of the “degradation of women” and definitive proof that “Islam as a social system has be ...

74 No god but God more gender-neutral interpretation of the Quran and a more balanced application of Islamic law while at the sa ...

������ 4. Fight in the Way of God THE MEANING OF JIHAD IN YATHRIB, THE Messenger of God is dreaming. He stands in a wide meadow. ...