Colombia University Press, New York, 2001. 256 p.
The image of the islam as an inherently aggresive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West. L. Carl Brown challenges this notion with a fascinating historical overview of the relationship between religious and political life in the Muslim world. He shows that both mode-day fundamentalists and their critics are wrong when they posit an eteally militant, unchanging Islam outside of history.
The image of the islam as an inherently aggresive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West. L. Carl Brown challenges this notion with a fascinating historical overview of the relationship between religious and political life in the Muslim world. He shows that both mode-day fundamentalists and their critics are wrong when they posit an eteally militant, unchanging Islam outside of history.