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Contents
Prologue: The Clash of Monotheisms xi
Author’s Note xxi
Chronology of Key Events xxiii
1. The Sanctuary in the Desert
PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA 3
2. The Keeper of the Keys
MUHAMMAD IN MECCA 23
3. The City of the Prophet
THE FIRS T MUSLIMS 50
4. Fight in the Way of God
THE MEANIN G O F JIHAD 75
5. The Rightly Guided Ones
THE SU CCESSORS T O MUHAMMAD 107
6. This Religion Is a Science
THE DEVELOPMEN T O F ISLAMIC THEOLOG Y AND LA W 140
7. In the Footsteps of Martyrs
FROM SHI‘ISM T O KHOMEINISM 171
