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

76 No god but God custom, the soldiers are trailed by a small group of women, bejeweled and dressed in their finest tunics. The ...

Fight in the Way of God 77 go out and meet the enemy, the more he wavers. Even his most trusted advisers are divided about what ...

78 No god but God The massive Meccan army makes quick work of Muhammad’s forces on the ground. The bodies of the dead litter the ...

Fight in the Way of God 79 Lewis, that the image of the Muslim horde charging wildly into battle like a swarm of locusts has bec ...

80 No god but God locked in a permanent state of religious war for territorial expansion. The Muslim armies that spread out of t ...

�� Fight in the Way of God 81 jihad. There are a host of words in Arabic that can be definitively translated as “war”; jihad is ...

82 No god but God Revelation evolved from general statements about the goodness and power of God to specific legal and civil rul ...

Fight in the Way of God 83 Though small and sporadic at first, Muhammad’s raids not only provided the Ummah with desperately nee ...

84 No god but God It is not that Arabia was short on “rules of war.” A host of regula- tions existed among the pagan tribes with ...

Fight in the Way of God 85 theists” and “the hypocrites,” respectively—with whom the Ummah was locked in a terrible war. Neverth ...

86 No god but God sanctioning jihad (as one can imagine, this was an unpopular argu- ment in colonial India). Chiragh Ali (1844– ...

Fight in the Way of God 87 that climaxed with the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Of course, th ...

88 No god but God inched closer to each other, Muhammad refused to fight until attacked. Even as the fighting began—in tradition ...

Fight in the Way of God 89 However, neither the “reverse migration” from Medina to Mecca nor the defection of the Hanifs trouble ...

90 No god but God Muslims their religion,” it nevertheless fully expected them to provide aid to “whoever wars against the peopl ...

Fight in the Way of God 91 lowers, many of whom had been seriously wounded in the battle, Muhammad agreed. The Banu Nadir left M ...

�� 92 No god but God For more than a month, he kept the Qurayza inside their fortress while he deliberated with his advisers abo ...

Fight in the Way of God 93 dictory accounts derived from Jewish chroniclers who wished to por- tray the Qurayza as heroic martyr ...

94 No god but God And while reports of the total number of men who were killed vary from 400 to 700 (depending on the source), t ...

Fight in the Way of God 95 world. Nowhere was this tolerance more evident than in medieval Spain—the supreme example of Muslim, ...