No god but God
Subtitle: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: January 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812971897
Subjects: Religion - World Religions; Islamic History; Religion; Islam - History; Comparative Religion; Islam - General; Religion / Islam; History; Essence, genius, nature; Islam
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.