No god but God
Subtitle: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Publisher: Random House
Published: March 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781400062133
Subjects: Islam - General; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Religion / Islam; Islam; Essence, genius, nature; History
First sentence: IN THE ARID, desolate basin of Mecca, surrounded on all sides by the bare mountains of the Arabian desert, stands a small, nondescript sanctuary that the ancient Arabs refer to as the Ka'ba: the Cube.